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The Mill on the Floss Quotes

Watch your own speech, and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purposes.

Source:(Aladine Book, ed. 1860), Book VI. The Great Temptation, Chapter XIII, Page 491
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George Eliot (The Mill on the Floss Quotes)
  • Book: The Mill on the Floss
  • Writer: George Eliot
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Published: 1860
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