# The Warden

- Author: [Anthony Trollope](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope.md)
- Quotes: 3
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-warden

## Quotes

> He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.

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> The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that something personal was intended; and as this tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the town in question, we are anxious that no personality may be suspected.

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> The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.

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