“the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families...”

—  George Eliot

Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 3 (at page 23)

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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