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George Eliot
“Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a dowry—the mother too often standing behind the daughter like a malignant prophecy—“Such as I am, she will shortly be.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

George Eliot
“It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

George Eliot
“Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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George Eliot
“I call it improper pride to let fool's notions hinder you from doing a good action. There's no sort of work," said Caleb, with fervor, putting out his hand and moving it up and down to mark his emphasis, "that could ever be done well, if you minded what fools say. You must have it inside you that your plan is right, and that plan you must follow.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

George Eliot
“Most of us who turn to any subject with 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, Middlemarch

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