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Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
Autobiographer
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London
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Poverty
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Pitiable
Picturesque
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Rural
Hideous
Misery

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