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George Eliot
“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

George Eliot
“I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions.”
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
“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
“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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