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Anthony Trollope

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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.


— Anthony Trollope


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I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.


— Anthony Trollope


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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.


— Anthony Trollope


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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.


— Anthony Trollope


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I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.


— Anthony Trollope


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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.


— Anthony Trollope


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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.


— 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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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.


— Anthony Trollope


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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.


— Anthony Trollope


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About Anthony Trollope

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Did you know about Anthony Trollope?

: /ˈtrɒləp/; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was one of the most successful prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In late 1859 Trollope learned of preparations for the release of the Cornhill Magazine to be publiAnthony Trolloped by George Murray Smith and edited by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life but he regained the esteem of critics by the mid-twentieth century. Some of his best-loved works collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire.

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