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Quotation by George Eliot
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George Eliot (207)Additional Sources
Adam Bede (1859)Amos Barton Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)Bartle Massey, in Adam Bede (1859)Daniel Deronda (1876)Daniel Deronda (1874-1876)Related Subjects
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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the "dear deceit" of beauty.
George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist. Adam Bede, bk. 1, ch. 15 (1859).
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