If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. - George Eliot

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George Eliot: "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity."

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About	Beat	Feeling	Grass
Grow	Hearing	Heart	Human
Keen	Lies	Life	Ordinary
Other	Roar	Side	Silence
Squirrels	Stupidity	Vision	Wadded
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