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George Eliot

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The pen name of Mary Anne Evans who was an English novelist.. (1819–1880)


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Quote Left To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. Quote Right
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Quote Left Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. Quote Right
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Quote Left The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender. Quote Right
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Quote Left His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly. Quote Right
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Quote Left Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness. Quote Right
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