Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their s…

George Eliot
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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.117, Penguin
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