It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet …

George Eliot
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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self. ✨ 'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 3, ch. 29
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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self. ✨ 'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 3, ch. 29

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