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It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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