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There's nothing like going on with a thing.

Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
Autobiographer
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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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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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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 ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
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When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
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He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
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It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.
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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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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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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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Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
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Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
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There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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What is there that money will not do?
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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