You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom,…

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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch, p.420, Booklassic
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch, p.420, Booklassic

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