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Adam Bede

George Eliot

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I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ’em to match the men.

— Mrs Poyser · Mrs Poyser in George Eliot's Adam Bede (1859)

on’y it was a pity he couldna be hatched o’er again, an’ hatched different.

— Mrs Poyser · Mrs Poyser in George Eliot's Adam Bede (1859)

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Adam Bede

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