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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 have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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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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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.
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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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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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