Eliot

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    It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)