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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

George Meredith

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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Portsmouth
England
Rarest
Gift
Beauty
Common
Sense

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