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George Eliot, Middlemarch Quotes: If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
         

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.


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If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.
         



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