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Middlemarch Quotes
The most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
Source:
(Penguin Books, ed. 1973), Book VIII. Sunset and Sunrise, Chapter 76, Page 821
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Ambition
Obstacle
Problem
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Book:
Middlemarch
Writer:
George Eliot
Genre:
fiction
Published:
1872
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