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The return of this Saint Cecilia’s Day finds me in better health than has been usual with me in these last six months. But I am not yet engaged in any work that makes a higher life for me — a life that is young and grows, though in my other life I am getting old and decaying.

George Eliot, Diary, November 22, 1868