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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
Biographer
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Accounts
Short
Friends
Money
Long
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One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.
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The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.
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Above all else, never think you're not good enough.
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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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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.
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No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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The circumstances seemed to be simple but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.
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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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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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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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When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.
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