Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life. - George Eliot

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George Eliot: "Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life."

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Beliefs	Believe	Child	Children
Contrary	Demand	Discovery	Downfall
Easily	Freckleless	Habitual	Heroes
Life	Makes	Maturer	Passionate
Perhaps	Revolutionary	Seem	Shock
Them	Threatened	Totter	World

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