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Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Source:(Penguin Books, ed. 1973), Book II. Old and Young, Chapter 21, Page 240
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George Eliot (Middlemarch Quotes)
  • Book: Middlemarch
  • Writer: George Eliot
  • Genre: fiction
  • Published: 1872
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