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The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
Thomas Hardy
Born: June 2, 1840
Died: January 11, 1928 (aged 87)
Bio: Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.
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