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...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 71
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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Kenya's capital
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