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George Eliot: More helpful than...

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Source: The Mill on the Floss, bk. 7, ch. 1, 1860.
-- 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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