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The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

— Anthony Trollope He Knew He Was Right (1869)

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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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