“The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature;...”

—  George Eliot

Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 3 (at page 32)

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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