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Anthony Trollope

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It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.


— Anthony Trollope


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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.


— Anthony Trollope


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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.


— Anthony Trollope


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It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.


— Anthony Trollope


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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.


— Anthony Trollope


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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.


— Anthony Trollope


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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.


— Anthony Trollope


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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.


— Anthony Trollope


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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.


— Anthony Trollope


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Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.


— Anthony Trollope


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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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