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Anthony Trollope

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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.


— Anthony Trollope


#romance #life

In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.


— Anthony Trollope


#poetry #beauty

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.


— Anthony Trollope


#good #man #much #never #not good enough

Life is so unlike theory.


— Anthony Trollope


#theory #unlike

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.


— Anthony Trollope


#clan #doctrine #honesty #honesty is #incompatible

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.


— Anthony Trollope


#honesty #i #i think #most #rogues

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.


— Anthony Trollope


#government #i #knew #never #wanted

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.


— Anthony Trollope


#creatures #god #greatest #his #love

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.


— Anthony Trollope


#doubt #girl #her #i #knew

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.


— Anthony Trollope


#course #good #got #haven #i






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Did you know about Anthony Trollope?

: /ˈtrɒləp/; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was one of the most successful prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In late 1859 Trollope learned of preparations for the release of the Cornhill Magazine to be publiAnthony Trolloped by George Murray Smith and edited by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life but he regained the esteem of critics by the mid-twentieth century. Some of his best-loved works collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire.

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