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Adam Bede Quotes

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

Source:(Collins, ed. 1952), Book I, Chapter 11. In the Cottage, Page 113
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  • Book: Adam Bede
  • Writer: George Eliot
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
  • Published: 1859
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