Opening Lines by Mathematicians: Middlemarch
Miss Brooke's beauty 'thrown into relief by poor dress' becomes a great proof whose bad notation just shows how great it is.
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Middlemarch: Miss Brooke's beauty 'thrown into relief by poor dress' becomes a great proof whose bad notation just shows how great it is.