The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire,…

George Eliot
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The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic. ✨ George Eliot (1875). Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life, p.24
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The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic. ✨ George Eliot (1875). Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life, p.24

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