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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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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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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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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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Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
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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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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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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
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A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.
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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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I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.
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It is hard to conceive that the old, whose thoughts have been all thought out, should ever love to live alone. Solitude is surely for the young, who have time before them for the execution of schemes, and who can, therefore, take delight in thinking
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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
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Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.
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A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.
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It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.
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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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When any practice has become the fixed rule of the society in which we live, it is always wise to adhere to that rule, unless it call upon us to do something that is actually wrong. One should not offend the prejudices of the world, even if one is quite sure that they are prejudices.
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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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