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Particular lies may speak a general truth.

George Eliot

Lying, May, Speak

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.405

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It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

George Eliot

Sex, Inferiority, Facts

George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.353

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With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

George Eliot

Book, Past, Mirrors

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, George Eliot

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Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

George Eliot

Book, Eye, Intelligent

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.113

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In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

George Eliot

Country, Book, Men

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1303, Wordsworth Editions

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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

George Eliot

Thinking, Half, World

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

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When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

George Eliot

Men, Resolution, Bachelors

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.348, Wordsworth Editions

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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

George Eliot

Hands, Remembrance, Soul

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3225, Delphi Classics

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Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

George Eliot

Summer, Wings, Space

Laetitia Weaver, George Eliot “Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century”, Lulu.com

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Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

George Eliot

Anxiety, Perception, Captives

George Eliot (189?). “Middlemarch”

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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

George Eliot

Legs, Break, Heavy

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.715, Wordsworth Editions

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and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

George Eliot

Discovery, Agony, Soul

George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.83, 谷月社

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For my part I am very sorry for him. 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--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

George Eliot

Sorry, Passion, Self

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

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When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

George Eliot

Girl, Twenties, Stones

George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.308, Courier Corporation

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Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

George Eliot

Horse, Doors, Sunny Afternoon

GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.431

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The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

George Eliot

Lying, Mind, Argument

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

George Eliot

Pride, Looks, Proud

George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.150, ShandonPress

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A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

George Eliot

Mean, Men, Imagination

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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

George Eliot

Love, Morning, Book

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.467, Wordsworth Editions

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Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

George Eliot

Life, Air, Games

George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.196

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History repeats itself.

George Eliot

Wise, Wisdom, History

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Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

George Eliot

Mother, Children, Teaching

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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

George Eliot

Missing, Dresses, Relief

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.6, Booklassic

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How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.

George Eliot

Blame, Reviews, Findings

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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

George Eliot

Ignorance, Discovery, Fire

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.257, George Eliot

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