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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

George Eliot

Truth, Literature, Easy

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Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

George Eliot

Silly, Men, Unhappy

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Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

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Philosophy, Women, Facts

'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 11

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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

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Teaching, Self, Taught

'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 3, ch. 29

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In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

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Human Nature, Exception, Humans

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

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Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

George Eliot

Memories, Eye, Men

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1359, Delphi Classics

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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

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Silence, Speech, Nests

'Felix Holt' (1866) ch. 15

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Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.

George Eliot

Safe, Danger, Toms

George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.235

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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

George Eliot

Love, Evil, Effort

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3402, Delphi Classics

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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

George Eliot

Girl, People, Feelings

George Eliot (2016). “Scenes of Clerical Life: Top Novelist Focus”, p.225, 谷月社

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It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

George Eliot

Father, Son, Giving

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.139, Booklassic

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I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

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Ambition, Different, Mastery

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.499, Penguin

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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

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Marriage, Order, May

'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 9

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There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

George Eliot

Glasses, Hands, Bird

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.162, Wordsworth Editions

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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

George Eliot

Inspiration, Names, Analysis

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.98

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I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

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Principles, Debt, Dinner

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6597, Delphi Classics

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A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

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Children, Thinking, Chance

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.91

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I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

George Eliot

Writing, Mind, Answers

George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.635

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Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

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People, Might, Neighbor

1871-2 Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.1.

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History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

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Costumes, Incidents, Repeats

George Eliot (189?). “Scenes of clerical life”

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Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.

George Eliot

Baby, Sleep, Thinking

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A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

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Men, Life And Death, Likes

George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.249, Broadview Press

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In every parting there is an image of death.

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Literature, Parting

'Scenes of Clerical Life' (1858) 'Amos Barton' ch. 10

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Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

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Mirrors, Pulse, Done

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.792, George Eliot

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Human experience is usually paradoxical.

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Human Experience, Paradoxical, Humans

George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.663, Wordsworth Editions

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Born: November 22, 1819
Died: December 22, 1880
Occupation: Novelist
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