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George Eliot, Middlemarch Quotes: Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
         

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.


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Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
         



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