To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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Showing all quotesBirth: | 2nd August, 1854 |
Death: | 9th April, 1909 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist |
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Francis Marion Crawford was born in Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. He was an American novelist. He studied successively at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire; Cambridge University; University of Heidelberg; and the University of Rome. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited in Allahabad The Indian Herald. He wrote several novels include: Mr. Isaacs, A Roman Singer, Zoroaster, Saracinesca, Greifenstein, Khaled, Love in Idleness, A Rose of Yesterday, In the Palace of the King, Cecilia, A Lady of Rome, The Witch of Prague, The Screaming Skull, and The primadonna.
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