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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life— the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it— can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

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About George Eliot

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, an English novelist and essayist of the Victorian era. Her novels, including Middlemarch, are central works of nineteenth-century English literature.

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