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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith
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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
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Portsmouth
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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
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God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
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