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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Delicate Found Grow How Ivy Know Parasite Plants Prosper Strong Tower Wall

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And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

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Topics: Gentleman More Much Though

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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Any Art Cut Learning Road Royal Short

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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

Topics: Become Clan Doctrine Honesty Honesty Is Incompatible Interests Large Man Movement Now Onward Political Politicians Quick Slow Subversive Unnecessary

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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Early Life Misfortune Necessary Only Success Success Is Unfortunate Very

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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: He His Little Lives Nature Nothing Own Rather Satire Satirist Seem Should Sins Springs Than Which Who Will World Write Writes

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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Enjoyment Fade Habit Lasts Only Other Pleasures Reading Which

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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Easy Matrimony Respectable Road Wealth

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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: About Away Comfortable Feeling Fly Ground Know Land Only Own Stand The Only Thing Thing You Your

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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: End English Except Happiness Love Novel

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: April 24th, 1815

Died: December 6th, 1882

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