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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

Topics: Enough Good Man Much Never Not Good Enough Own People Reckoning Should Take Think Very Will You Your

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There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Achievements All Night Another Catching Done Hear Never Night Presence Salmon Some Them Those Which Who Working

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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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A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Added He Herself Himself Husband Life Man Nor Not Perfect Perfect She Till Whole Wife Woman

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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

~Anthony Trollope

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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Does Esteem Last Lasts Long Love More Much Mutual Passionate Passionate Love Rarely Take Troublesome Valuable Very While

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Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

~Anthony Trollope

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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

~Anthony Trollope

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Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

~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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: April 24th, 1815

Died: December 6th, 1882

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