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What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

George Meredith

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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
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Portsmouth
England
Thinking
Test
Tests
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Woman
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Women

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