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God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

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
Blessing
Woman
Good

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