We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation di…

George Eliot
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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.145, Penguin
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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.145, Penguin

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