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People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.

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
World
Fancying
People
Quarrelling
Romance
Married
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