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George Eliot - Middlemarch - Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

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“ Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. ”

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Author

George Eliot

Source

Middlemarch

Topic

insanity sanity lunatics standards

Date

1872

Language

English

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