In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, th…

George Eliot
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories. ✨ George Eliot (1859). Adam Bede, p.262, London
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories. ✨ George Eliot (1859). Adam Bede, p.262, London

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