We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has exis…

George Eliot
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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.223, Penguin
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