A Quote by George Eliot

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

George Eliot

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George Eliot
British - Novelist
November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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