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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. - George Eliot (The Spanish Gypsy Quotes)

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Source:The Spanish Gypsy (1868), (William Blackwood & Sons, ed. 1868), Book I, Page 162
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  • Name: George Eliot
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist
  • Born: November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880
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