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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.
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Though they were Liberals they were not democrats nor yet infidels.
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On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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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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I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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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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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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The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
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The law is a great thing,--because men are poor and weak, and bad. And it is great, because where it exists in its strength, no tyrant can be above it. But between you and me there should be no mention of law as the guide of conduct. Speak to me of honour, and of duty, and of nobility and tell me what they require of you.
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He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.
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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.
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