Quote by George Eliot
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subs

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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