https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:16:01 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/eliot-george/34334/ https://wist.info/eliot-george/34334/#respond Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:50:15 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34334 Our deeds still travel with us from afar.
And what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist [pseud. of Mary Ann Evans]
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Ben Aaronovitch (b. 1964) British author
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