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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

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
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Philanthropist
Thought
Sometimes
Bloodthirsty
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Professed

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