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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

George Meredith

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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
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Portsmouth
England
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