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Scenes of Clerical Life Quotes
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside itself – it only requires opportunity.
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(William Blackwood & Sons, ed. 1858), Janet's Repentance, Chapter XIII, Page 261
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Scenes of Clerical Life
Writer:
George Eliot
Genre:
Fiction, Short Stories
Published:
1857
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