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A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
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If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
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You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.
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Short accounts make long friends.
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