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• That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

  Anthony Trollope

  Marriage, Girl, Money

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Framley Parsonage”, p.247, Booklassic

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• To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

  Anthony Trollope

  Meals, Left Alone, Novel

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1267, e-artnow

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• Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

  Anthony Trollope

  Towers, Century, Quarters

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.58, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

  Anthony Trollope

  Aristocracy, Politics, England

  Anthony Trollope (1874). “Lady Anna”, p.292

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• It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my chronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.

  Anthony Trollope

  Looks, Purpose, Goes On

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works”, p.17, 谷月社

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• A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

  Anthony Trollope

  Sports, Men, Likes

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels: The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds…”, p.4409, e-artnow

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• Short accounts make long friends.

  Anthony Trollope

  Money, Long, Accounts

  Anthony Trollope (1864). “Rachel Ray: A Novel”, p.342

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• Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

  Anthony Trollope

  Ambition, Men, Desire

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.4904, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

  Anthony Trollope

  Punishment, Faces, Habit

  'Autobiography' (1883) ch. 1

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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

  Husband, Men, Perfect

  Anthony Trollope (2009). “Miss Mackenzie: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.226, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Eye, Dark

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “Orley farm”, p.141

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• The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.

  Anthony Trollope

  Ideas, House, Prison

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels: The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds…”, p.4600, e-artnow

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

  Anthony Trollope

  Faults, Politician, Wanted

  'Phineas Finn' (1869) ch. 13

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• Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

  Anthony Trollope

  Book, Hero, Tears

  Anthony Trollope (1861). “Framley parsonage”, p.92

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• Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

  Anthony Trollope

  Heart, Leader, Gentleman

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1855, e-artnow

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• Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.

  Anthony Trollope

  Mistake, Past, Years

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Can You Forgive Her?”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

  Anthony Trollope

  Real, Believe, Men

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Claverings: Trollope's Works”, p.307, 谷月社

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• To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!

  Anthony Trollope

  Difficult, Get Away, Wells

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1749, e-artnow

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• When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.

  Anthony Trollope

  Father, Book, Blessed

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “Framley Parsonage: A Novel”, p.9

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• He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Speak, Know How

  "Phineas Redux". Book by Anthony Trollope, Ch. 62, 1873.

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• A physician should take his fee without letting his left hand know what his right is doing; it should be taken without a thought, without a look, without a move of the facial muscles; the true physician should hardly be aware that the last friendly grasp of the hand has been made more precious by the touch of gold

  Anthony Trollope

  Moving, Taken, Hands

  Doctor Thorne Ch. III

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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

  Power, Years, Temptation

  'The Small House at Allington' (1864) ch. 14

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• But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Facts, Opinion

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Phineas Redux”, p.438, Booklassic

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• Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

  Anthony Trollope

  Love, Book, Perfect

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• I have read - nay, I have bought! - Carlyle's 'Latter Day Pamphlets,' and look on my eight shillings as very much thrown away. To me it appears that the grain of sense is so smothered up in a sack of the sheerest trash, that the former is valueless....I look on him as a man who was always in danger of going mad in literature and who has now done so.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Eight, Mad

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