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Quote by Anthony Trollope
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far

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

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