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George Eliot · Dorothea Brooke's question in the novel; George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.
George Eliot · Dorothea Brooke's question in the novel; George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.
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Eleanor Roosevelt · From the chapter "Learning to Be Useful" in her last book, written at 76.
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