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In political matters it is very hard for a man in office to be purer than his neighbours, — and, when he is so, he becomes troublesome.
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Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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Frankfort is the capital of Kentucky, and is as quietly a dull town as I ever visited.… The legislature of the state was not sitting when I was there, and the grass was growing in the streets.
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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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The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.
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He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.
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He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, — and therefore he'll be a success.
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To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.
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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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The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _____; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that something personal was intended; and as this tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the of the town in question, we are anxious that no personality may be suspected.
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[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.
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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.
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Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country worthy of note?? To puff and to get one's self puffed have become different branches of a new profession.
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There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.
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As one of the legislators of the country I am prepared to state that statistics are always false.
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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
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I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so.
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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
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Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
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But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.
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Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.
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This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
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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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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
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Born:
April 24, 1815
Died:
December 6, 1882
(aged 67)
Bio:
Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era.
Known for:
The Way We Live Now (1875)
The Warden (1855)
Barchester Towers (1857)
Doctor Thorne (1858)
Can You Forgive Her? (1864)
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