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Quote by George Eliot
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot

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