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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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There was but one thing for him- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.
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A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
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Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.
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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
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Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
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When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.
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We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable not because it is desirable to have something to do.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Though they were Liberals they were not democrats nor yet infidels.
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The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
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