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Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

— Anthony Trollope North America (1862)

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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Orley Farm (1862)

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

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

Framley Parsonage (1861)

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

The Bertrams (1859)

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