Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
GEORGE ELIOTMan, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
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