Eliot

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    In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    ... one’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    ... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)