There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our mo…

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There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.406, Penguin
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There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.406, Penguin

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