Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous…

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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? ✨ George Eliot (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.386, Penguin
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