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Middlemarch Quotes

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Source:(Penguin Books, ed. 1973), Book IV. Three Love Problems, Chapter 42, Page 456
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George Eliot (Middlemarch Quotes)
  • Book: Middlemarch
  • Writer: George Eliot
  • Genre: fiction
  • Published: 1872
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