Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

—Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope ( TROL-əp; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era.

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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

—Anthony Trollope

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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If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

—Terry Eagleton

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My security against the inevitable is: the longer I live, the more dead people I know.

—Helen M. Stump

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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

—Pablo Neruda

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How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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