Wednesday, February 10, 2010

"the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable"

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not no ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

— George Eliot (final lines - Middlemarch)

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