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George Eliot

“Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too."
Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright
The coming pest with border fortresses,
Or catch your carp with subtle argument.
All force is twain in one: cause is not cause
Unless effect be there; and action's self
Must needs contain a passive. So command
Exists but with obedience.”

George Eliot, Middlemarch
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