Finale
Lydgate dies at fifty of diphtheria, having achieved a good practice but never the great research; he calls Rosamond his basil plant.
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From Middlemarch by George Eliot
The brilliant young reformer ends as a fashionable doctor who 'considered himself a failure.'
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