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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

George Eliot
Our World, Discovery, Facts
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.223, Penguin
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.