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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
Approximate author period: c. 1849 AD · industrial
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- George Eliot
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- Approximate author period: c. 1849 AD · industrial
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 125; printed byline: George Eliot; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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