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George Eliot: Ignorance. . ....

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Ignorance. . . is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Source: Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story, ch. 3 (first published in Blackwood's Magazine, 1857; repr. in Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858).
-- 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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