There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will …

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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. ✨ George Eliot (2016). Daniel Deronda, p.179, Open Road Media
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