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A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
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
Soil
Fast
Wine
Imagination
Lives
Splendidly
House
Stored
Great
Joyful
Rooted
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