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It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
Autobiographer
Biographer
Novelist
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London
England
Dogged
Inspirational
Doe
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