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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
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University Teacher
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London
England
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Never
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