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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.
Ann Radcliffe
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Ann Radcliffe
Age: 58 †
Born: 1764
Born: July 9
Died: 1823
Died: February 7
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Ann Ward
Anne Radcliffe
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