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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 5.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 5.

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We cannot reform our forefathers.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 53.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 53.

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He was like a cock, who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 33.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 33.

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Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 1, ch. 6.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 1, ch. 6.

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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876, bk. 2, ch. 15.

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Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 2, ch. 15.

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"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, epilogue.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, epilogue.

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History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

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Eliot, George. "Janet's Repentance." Blackwood's Magazine, Edinburgh/London: Scotland, UK, 1857, ch. 10.

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Eliot, George. "Janet's Repentance." Scenes of Clerical Life, edited by Thomas A. Noble. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 10.

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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 2, ch. 20.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2, ch. 20.

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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

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Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876, bk. 3, ch. 24.

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Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 3, ch. 24.

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Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbor.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 1, ch. 11.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 1, ch. 11.

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He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 1, ch. 9.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 1, ch. 9.

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

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Eliot, George. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1879, ch. 4.

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In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 18.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 18.

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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

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Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861, ch. 18.

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Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Signet, 2007, ch. 18.

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Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 42.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 42.

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We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 2, ch. 20.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2, ch. 20.

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The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 36.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 36.

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A woman can hardly ever choose...she is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 27.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 27.

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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds, and until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination of outward with inward facts, which constitutes a man's critical actions, it will be better not to think ourselves wise about his character.