“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
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Category: nature
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“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”
— Anthony Trollope
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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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“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
— 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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“I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.”
— Anthony Trollope
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“They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.”
— 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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“Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.”
— Anthony Trollope
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“What is there that money will not do?”
— Anthony Trollope
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“When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.”
— Anthony Trollope
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