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"You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit."
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Anthony TrollopePower is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoym — Anthony Trollope
"Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious."
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels, as well as The Way We Live Now. His novels address political, social, and gender issues and other topical matters. He also wrote an autobiography, a book on William Makep
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"As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, — in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives."
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"There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, — and always to plead it successfully."
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"There is such a difference between life and theory."
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"Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed."
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"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
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