George Eliot
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1819
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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past
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I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men
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I'm not denying that women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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The law's made to take care o' raskills
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. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
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If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present
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I'm more and more impressed with the duty of finding happiness
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Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade