It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
George Eliot

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It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own. George Eliot

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
George Eliot