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Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

Anthony Trollope

Flirting, Reality, Ordinary

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.4368, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.

Anthony Trollope

Honesty, Hands, Doe

Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister”, p.103, Booklassic

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She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.

Anthony Trollope

Madness, Sanity, Remnants

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.321, e-artnow

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I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury.

Anthony Trollope

Men, Judging, Important

Anthony Trollope, John Bowen (2011). “Phineas Redux”, p.388, Oxford University Press

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It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.

Anthony Trollope

Pride, Names, Letters

Anthony Trollope (2015). “Can You Forgive Her? (Unabridged): Victorian Classic from the prolific English novelist, known for Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Palliser Novels, The Prime Minister, The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne and Phineas Finn…”, p.339, e-artnow

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It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.

Anthony Trollope

Passion, Successful, Interesting

1883 Autobiography, ch.12.

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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

Anthony Trollope

Art, Writing, Snakes

Anthony Trollope (1871). “Ralph the heir. With illustr. by F.A. Fraser”, p.425

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Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted "The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people.

Anthony Trollope

Religious, People, Church

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.4348, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

Anthony Trollope

Enemy, Benefits, Easy

Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.318

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

Anthony Trollope

Literature, Screws, Peg

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.739, e-artnow

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Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

Anthony Trollope

Style, Novelists, Impossible

Anthony Trollope (1978). “An Autobiography”, p.208, Univ of California Press

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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.

Anthony Trollope

Eye, People, Mind

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.5082, e-artnow

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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

Anthony Trollope

Book, Writing, Men

Anthony Trollope, David Skilton (1996). “An autobiography”, Penguin Group USA

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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

Anthony Trollope

Fashion, Men, Doubt

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.4517, e-artnow

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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

Anthony Trollope

School, Training, Scholar

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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

Anthony Trollope

Equality, Men, Mind

Anthony Trollope (2014). “An Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.182, Oxford University Press, USA

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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Anthony Trollope

Literature, Birth, Lows

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.1049, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

Anthony Trollope

Life And Love, World, Want

"Framley Parsonage".

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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

Anthony Trollope

New York, Cities, American Cities

Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.186

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But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

Anthony Trollope

Eye, Light, House

Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works”, p.36, 谷月社

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A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

Anthony Trollope

Horse, Husband, House

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.3352, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.

Anthony Trollope

Men, Two, People

Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.233, 谷月社

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Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

Anthony Trollope

Taken, Poison, Should

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

Long, Passionate, Lasts

Anthony Trollope (1861). “The Bertrams: a novel”, p.303

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This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

Anthony Trollope

Writing, Twenties, World

Anthony Trollope (1859). “The Bertrams: A Novel”, p.313

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Born: April 24, 1815
Died: December 6, 1882
Occupation: Novelist
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