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George Eliot: When we get...

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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Source: Daniel Deronda, bk. 2, ch. 14, 1876.
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880), English novelist; Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., Silas Marner, 1861.


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