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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality

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"It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art"

- Margaret Oliphant

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This quote is written / told by Margaret Oliphant between April 4, 1828 and June 25, 1897. He/she was a famous Novelist from Scotland. The author also have 6 other quotes.

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