For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot, Middlemarch
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For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

— George Eliot, Middlemarch
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