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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

George Eliot

George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist, editor. Daniel Deronda, bk. 2, ch. 14 (1876).

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