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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Source: Felix Holt, the Radical, ch. 13, 1866. -- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880), English novelist; Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., Silas Marner, 1861.