• The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

  Anthony Trollope
  British writer 1815-1882
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. adequately
2. perfection
3. another
4. ladder
5. first

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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. by : Anthony Trollope

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