To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security a…

George Eliot
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.52, Penguin
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