“It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.”

—  George Eliot

Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 12 (at page 107)

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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