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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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I am ready to obey as a child :but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.
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Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.
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The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.
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When you have done the rashest thing in the world it is very pleasant to be told that no man of spirit could have acted otherwise.
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
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Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
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