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George Eliot on Society

1819–1880 England

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5 quotes

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.

A serious ape whom none take seriously,
Obliged in this fool's world to earn his nuts
By hard buffoonery.

The Spanish Gypsy (1868)

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Daniel Deronda (1876)

Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.

Adam Bede (1859)

When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss
At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,
Because the one so near the other is.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Eliot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.