Stan CareyMaybe it was from seeing Middlemarch atop that Guardian poll, but I finally took this off the shelf and am very glad I did
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"The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm."
—George Eliot, Silas Marner
165 years later, the line still lands