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  1. George Eliot _ Scenes of Clerical Life

    We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.
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  2. George Eliot _ Scenes of Clerical Life

    Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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  3. George Eliot _ Scenes of Clerical Life

    You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
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