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George Eliot: The only failure...

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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Source: Felix Holt, in Felix Holt, The Radical, ch. 45, 1866.
-- 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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