learn words rote, meaning; paid life-blood, printed subtle fibres nerv — George Eliot, Lifted Veil

George Eliot The Lifted Veil

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We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

George Eliot, The Lifted Veil

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