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Social Quotes by George Eliot
- I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
- Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions…
- 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…
- Excessive literary production is a social offense.
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