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Quotation from Middlemarch by George Eliot
“We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves”
Middlemarch, Book II, Chapter XXI (Project Gutenberg text)
As Dorothea begins to see that Casaubon has an equivalent center of self, with his own anxieties.
Citation: "We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves" — George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book II, Chapter XXI (Project Gutenberg text). (id middlemarch-q4)
Portrait: George Eliot, por François D'Albert Durade, replica by François D’Albert Durade (1804–1886), Public domain.
