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George EliotThe Mill on the Floss

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Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usua...

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For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

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