Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.
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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.George Eliot
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power ... but then, so should every other living creature.
George Eliot
It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
George Eliot
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
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