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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.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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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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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
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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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Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
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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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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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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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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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