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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Anthony Trollope ( TROL-əp; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels, as well as...

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