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Quote by Margaret Oliphant
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited ch

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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