“Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before — consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.”

—  George Eliot, book Adam Bede

Adam Bede (1859)

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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