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A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .

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
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Fool
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