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Plain Quotes by George Eliot
- Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain…
- Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
- Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge…
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