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showing a sharp contrast between verbose intellectualizing and direct expression

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See my post:

the head versus the heart

— Roger W. Smith

June 2024

This entry was posted in miscellaneous and tagged Dorothea Brooke, Edward Casaubon, George Eliot Middlemarch, Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith on June 26, 2024 by Roger W. Smith.

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