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Author: George Eliot
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George Eliot _ Complete Works of George Eliot
The 'History of the Devil,' by Daniel Defoe,–not quite the right book for a little girl," said Mr. Riley. "How came it among your books, Mr. Tulliver?
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George Eliot _ Complete Works of George Eliot
When Maggie laid down her work at night, it was her habit to get a low stool and sit by her father's knee, leaning her cheek against it. How she wished he would stroke her head, or give some sign that he was soothed by the sense that he had a daughter who loved him! But now she got no answer to her little caresses, either from her father or from Tom,–the two idols of her life. Tom was weary and abstracted in the short intervals when he was at home, and her father was bitterly preoccupied with the thought that the girl was growing up, was shooting up into a woman; and how was she to do well in life?
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George Eliot _ The Mill on the Floss
If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself-that's where it is.
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George Eliot _ Middlemarch: A Study of
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.
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George Eliot _ The Mill on the Floss
The thirst that from the soul doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine.
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George Eliot _ Middlemarch and Other Novels
Fielding lived when the days were longer {for time, like money, is measured by our needs}, when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.
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George Eliot _ Silas Marner
There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather than impressed by external objects.
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George Eliot _ Adam Bede
folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.
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George Eliot _ Middlemarch
He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader.
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George Eliot _ Middlemarch
The cubic feet of oxygen yearly swallowed by a full-grown man – what a shudder they might have created in some Middlemarch circles! 'Oxygen! nobody knows what that may be – is it any wonder the cholera has got to Dantzic?
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George Eliot _ Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
...His tall figure, the distinguished simplicity of his air-it was a living Vandyke, a cavalier, one of his noble cavalier ancestors, or one to whom her fancy had always likened him, who long of yore had with an Umfraville fought the Paynim far beyond the sea. Was this reality?" Very little like it, certainly.
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George Eliot _ Adam Bede
The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than a painter or a musician can wish to return to his cruder manner, or a philosopher to his less complete formula.
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