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Quotation by Margaret Oliphant
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as quoted in Woman in Sexist Society by Elaine Showalter (1971)Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Margaret Oliphant (1899)Clarence Copperhead, in Phoebe, Junior (1876)Memoirs and Resolutions of Adam Graeme, of Mossgray (1852)Miss Marjoribanks Chronicles of Carlingford, no. 4 (1866)
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 (1828–1897), British novelist, historian. The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent, preface (1892).
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