There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largen…

George Eliot
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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. ✨ George Eliot (1871). Felix Holt, the Radical, p.91
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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. ✨ George Eliot (1871). Felix Holt, the Radical, p.91

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