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George Eliot Quotes: When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
         

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.


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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
         



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