In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch …

George Eliot
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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness. ✨ George Eliot (2009). Daniel Deronda, p.31, Oxford Paperbacks
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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness. ✨ George Eliot (2009). Daniel Deronda, p.31, Oxford Paperbacks

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