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Bitter Quote by George Eliot

“With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's…” quote by George Eliot
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“With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.”

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