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【幼年時代についての追憶（続き）】
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Life did change for Tom and Maggie; and yet they were not wrong in
believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would
always make part of their lives. 【We could never have loved the earth
so well if we had had no childhood in it】,–if it were not the earth
where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to
gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the
grass; the same hips and haws on the autumn's hedgerows; the same
redbreasts that we used to call "God's birds," because they did no
harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony
where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
("The Mill on the Floss," George Eliot, 1860)
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