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George Eliot

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The pen name of Mary Anne Evans who was an English novelist.. (1819–1880)


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Quote Left But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. Quote Right
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Quote Left Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. Quote Right
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Quote Left One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. Quote Right
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Quote Left There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. Quote Right
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Quote Left Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs