“Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.”

—  George Eliot , book Scenes of Clerical Life

"The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" Ch. 4
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)

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