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1819–1880 England
George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans; 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880) was an English novelist and poet. Despite the strong social customs of her times against such arrangements, she lived unmarried with fellow writer George Henry Lewes for over 20 years.
England Authors Essayists Journalists Novelists Also known as: Eliot, George, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), George Eliott, Mary Ann Evans
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The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
Adam Bede (1859)
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
That is the bitterest of all, — to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.
Adam Bede (1859)
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
Romola (1863)
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love...
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
Romola (1863)
Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral.
Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.
In every parting there is an image of death.
It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion.
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
Middlemarch (1871)
Man thinks
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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