Not who you're looking for? Others named Anthony Trollope: English novelist of the Victorian period (1815-1882)
“[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.”
“The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.”
“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.”
“She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.”
“You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.”
“Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.”
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