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It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

Anthony Trollope

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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
Autobiographer
Biographer
Novelist
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London
England
Necessity
Listening
Says
Nothing
Hard
Men

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