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Anthony Hope

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I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).


— Anthony Hope


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Good families are generally worse than any others.


— Anthony Hope


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His foe was folly and his weapon wit.


— Anthony Hope


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I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.


— Anthony Hope


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Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?


— Anthony Hope


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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.


— Anthony Hope


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Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.


— Anthony Hope


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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.


— Anthony Hope


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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.


— Anthony Hope


#cramps #i #i wish #ignorance #little






About Anthony Hope

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Did you know about Anthony Hope?

He wrote Tristram of Blent in 1901 and Double Harness in 1904 followed by A Servant of the Public in 1905 about the love of acting. 'Zenda achieved instant success and its witty protagonist the debonair Rudolf Rassendyll became a well-known literary creation. Youth
Hope was born in Clapton then on the edge of London where his father the Reverend Edward Connerford Hawkins was headmaster of St John's Foundational School for the Sons of Poor Clergy (which soon moved to Leatherhead in Surrey and is now St John's School).

These works "minor classics" of English literature are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance. Although he was a prolific writer especially of adventure novels he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898).

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