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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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 think I owe my life to cork soles.
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Short accounts make long friends.
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The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
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The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.
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In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party but the system has now gone out of vogue.
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Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
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There's nothing like going on with a thing.
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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?
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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
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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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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable not because it is desirable to have something to do.
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People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.
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Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
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