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"There is such a difference between life and theory."
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Anthony TrollopeThere is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-est — Anthony Trollope
"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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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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"He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so."
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"There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries, than the neccessity of listening to sermons."
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"She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration."
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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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"A mans mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency."
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