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But what is opportunity to the man who can’t use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Source:(William Blackwood & Sons, ed. 1858), The Sad Fortunes of teh Rev. Amos Barton, Chapter V, Page 45
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George Eliot (Scenes of Clerical Life Quotes)
  • Book: Scenes of Clerical Life
  • Writer: George Eliot
  • Genre: Fiction, Short Stories
  • Published: 1857
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