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George Eliot Quotes: Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.
         

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.


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This page presents the quote "Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.". Author of this quote is George Eliot. This quote is about infinite, taste, atheism,.