Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. ✨ George Eliot (2013). The Complete …

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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. ✨ George Eliot (2013). The Complete Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda, p.2215, e-artnow
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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this be … ▶
There are many victories worse than a defeat. ✨ George Eliot (1869). Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life, p.261
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ✨ George Eliot (2016). Complete Works Of George Eliot, p.3874, ShandonPress
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 (2015). Middlemarch: (Penguin Cl … ▶
Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me ✨ George Eliot (1839). Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy, p.432

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. ✨ George Eliot (2013). The Complete Novels of George Eliot: Adam Bede + The Lifted Veil + The Mill on the Floss + Silas Marner + Romola + Brother Jacob + Felix Holt the Radical + Middlemarch + Daniel Deronda, p.2215, e-artnow

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