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I think I owe my life to cork soles.

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right is doing it should be taken without a thought, without a look, without a move of the facial muscles the true physician should hardly be aware that the last friendly grasp of the hand has been made more precious by the touch of gold
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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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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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, - in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.
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