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His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of ever

His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly. – George Eliot

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot

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