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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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Margaret Oliphant
between April 4, 1828 and June 25, 1897. He/she was a famous
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