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“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“character too is a process and an unfolding.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Fred fancied that he saw to the bottom of his uncle Featherstone’s soul, though in reality half what he saw there was no more than the reflex of his own inclinations. The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”
― Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
― Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
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