George Eliot quote: It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has ...

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

~ George Eliot ~

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