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Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

Approximate author period: c. 1987 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Hilary Mantel
Attribution: attributed
Country attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1987 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1952 to 2022; Wikidata Q465700, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465700 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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Supplied reference C; CSV row 205502; supplied attribution, independently unverified

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