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Short accounts make long friends.

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
Autobiographer
Biographer
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Short
Friends
Money
Long
Make
Accounts

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