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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
Autobiographer
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Novelist
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London
England
Literature
Happiness
Ends
Love
English
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Novel

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