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"On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers."

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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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