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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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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot

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