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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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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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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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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
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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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Why is it that when men and women congregate, though the men may beat the women in numbers by ten to one, and through they certainly speak the louder, the concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women's voices?
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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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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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth a barrister must be nothing if he do.
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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.
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When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.
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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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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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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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