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George Eliot: It is generally...

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

Source: Adam Bede, bk. 1, ch. 15, 1859.
-- 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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