A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the m…

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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. ✨ George Eliot (2016). Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus, p.225, 谷月社
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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. ✨ George Eliot (2016). Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus, p.225, 谷月社

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