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There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

Anthony Trollope

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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
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Lying
Found
Another
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Shunned
Wells
Worse
Well
Sin

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