Eliot

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    It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness—calling their denial knowledge.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)