“She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.”

— Anthony Trollope, book Can You Forgive Her?

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English novelist (1815-1882) 1815–1882

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