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— George Eliot"A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it."
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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