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And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!
W. S. Gilbert
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W. S. Gilbert
Age: 74 †
Born: 1836
Born: November 18
Died: 1911
Died: May 29
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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
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