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“I rob you of no good chance. As to speaking, I hold it a crime to expose a man’s sin unless I’m clear it must be done to save the innocent. That is my way of thinking, Mr. Bulstrode…” p696

“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?” p688

“And I can’t be happy in working with you, or profiting by you. It hurts my mind. I must beg you to seek another agent.” p695

“he told himself that it was ten times harder for her than for him: he had a life away from home, and constant appeals to his activity on behalf of others.” p667

“He could not say “you are losing confoundedly, and are making everybody stare at you…” p673

“…that temptation in me - I am sure you know it. I am sure you know that the satisfaction of your affections stands in the way of mine.” p674

“Oh dear, yes; appearances have very little to do with happiness,” said Rosamund. p653

“Here was a case in which it could not be enough simply to disobey and be serenely, placidly obstinate….” p654

“…and make her indifferent to the absence of Will Ladislaw, towards whom she felt some resentment for his exaltation of Mrs. Casaubon.” p661

"It did not occur to him that Lydgate's marriage was not delightful." p640

"...if Fred wished her to invite Mary again she would make no objection, the children being so pleased with her." p643

"(Lydgate) knew as distinctly as possible that this was an offer of help to himself from Mr. Farebrother, and he could not bear it." p645

"The poor thing saw only that the world was not ordered to her liking..." p649

"I suppose one gets a habit of doing without happiness or hope." p633

""...in speaking to her so plainly; but still - it could not be fairly called wooing a woman to tell her that he would never woo her. It must be admitted to be a ghostly kind of wooing." p633

"...joy in the impression that it really was herself whom Will loved and was renouncing..." p 634

"...plodding along like a poor devil seeking..." p636

"Bulstrode became aware that one source of magnificent profit was the easy reception of any goods offered without strict inquiry as to where they came from." p616

"The daughter had been found; only one man besides Bulstrode knew it, and he was paid for keeping silence and carrying himself away." p617

"..a stain which I can't help. My mother felt it...It ought to lie with a man's self that he is a gentleman." p624

"But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary." p603

"a dashing young lady she was - fine boarding school - fit for a lord's wife - only Archie Duncan threw it at her out of spite, because she would have nothing to do with him." p611