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  1. 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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  2. George Eliot _ Middlemarch: A Study of

    That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here, dear uncle–which you think me stupid about. I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false,
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  3. George Eliot _ Middlemarch: A Study of

    For a long while she had been oppressed by the indefiniteness which hung in her mind, like a thick summer haze, over all her desire to make her life greatly effective.
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  4. George Eliot _ Middlemarch: A Study of

    How can you bear to be so contemptible, when others are working and striving, and there are so many things to be done–how can you bear to be fit for nothing in the world that is useful?
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    The story can be told without many words.
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  6. George Eliot _ Middlemarch: A Study of

    Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations.
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    The only conscience we can trust to is the massive sense of wrong in a class, and the best wisdom that will work is the wisdom of balancing claims. That's my test–which side is injured? I support the man who supports their claims; not the virtuous upholder of the wrong.
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  8. George Eliot _ Middlemarch: A Study of

    it is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness--calling their denial knowledge.
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  9. George Eliot _ Middlemarch: A Study of

    When a conversation has taken a wrong turn for us, we only get farther and farther into the swamp of awkwardness."
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  10. George Eliot _ Middlemarch: A Study of

    You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin.
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  11. George Eliot _ Middlemarch: A Study of

    It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
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  12. George Eliot _ Middlemarch: A Study of

    soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.
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