Anthony Trollope Quote

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.


Ch. 25 - Doctor Thorne (1858)


In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning...

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning...

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning...

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning...