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Short accounts make long friends.

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
Autobiographer
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London
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
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To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country -- that is happiness.
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When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
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I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.
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Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.
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Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.
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