Middlemarch

By George Eliot

QUOTATION: ... effective magic is transcendent nature ...
ATTRIBUTION: George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 39 (1871-1872).

QUOTATION: ... blameless people are always the most exasperating!
ATTRIBUTION: George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 12 (1871-1872).

QUOTATION: It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
ATTRIBUTION: George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist, editor. Middlemarch, bk. 6, ch. 58 (1871).

QUOTATION: Life wants padding.
ATTRIBUTION: George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 13 (1871-1872).

QUOTATION: But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
ATTRIBUTION: George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist, editor. Middlemarch, bk. 5, ch. 51 (1871).

QUOTATION: Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
ATTRIBUTION: George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist, editor. Middlemarch, bk. 4, ch. 40 (1871).

QUOTATION: We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves ...
ATTRIBUTION: George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 21 (1871-1872).

QUOTATION: ... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
ATTRIBUTION: George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 38 (1871-1872).

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