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We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us,...
Author:
George Eliot
Book:
Scenes of Clerical Life
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We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.
( George Eliot )
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