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  • But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch - A Study of Provincial Life -”, p.367, Read Books Ltd