unusual quotes

   We donot expect peopletobe deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.2, ch.20.

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