It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn ou…

George Eliot
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It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.243, Penguin
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