Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor. (George Eliot)

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

George Eliot

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