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George Eliot Quotes
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot

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Date of Birth:
November 22, 1819
Date of Death:
December 22, 1880
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