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Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

George Meredith

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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
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Portsmouth
England
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God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
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A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .
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The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.
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