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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Portsmouth
England
Answered
Praying
Prayer
Spiritual
Better
Men
Rises

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