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As George Elliot wrote in Middlemarch,

> The effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

I find that thought rather comforting, in a way.

This is a wonderful quote. thank you.
My rural FL county has a few nudist colonies; the residents call themselves naturalists. After 3 decades here, that meaning queues first in my head.