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Margaret Oliphant: It has been...

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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.

Source: The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent, Preface, 1892.
-- Margaret Oliphant, (Apr 4 1828-1897), Scottish writer; Her books on English society included Salem Chapel, 1876.


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