If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.
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Middlemarch by
George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Middlemarch by
George Eliot
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"
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Middlemarch by
George Eliot
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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Middlemarch by
George Eliot
"People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors."
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Middlemarch by
George Eliot
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?
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Middlemarch by
George Eliot
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Middlemarch by
George Eliot
For the stress of circumstances, Fred felt, was sharpening his acuteness and endowing him with all the constructive power of suspicion.
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Middlemarch by
George Eliot
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