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George Eliot Quotes
Short Bio:
Marianne Evans known for her pen name George Elliot was born in Warwickshire England on the 22nd of November 1819. She was an English novelist poet, journalist and one of the leading writers of the victorian era.
More Notable Quotes:
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
"The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
"There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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