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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 8h

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 8h

Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbor.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 1d

“Ah, if there’s good anywhere, we’ve need of it,” repeated Dolly, who did not lightly forsake a serviceable phrase.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 2d

If one could but order cheerfulness from the druggist’s!

George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 6d

Dorothea quietly persisted in spite of remonstrance and persuasion.

George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 8d

Is it not rather that we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 8d

"I hope your sharp wits see all the ins and outs of this business, my fine necromancer, for it seems to me no clearer than the bottom of a sack."

George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 8d

“Down, Mischief, down!" said Spini, with sudden roughness. “Malediction!" he added, still more gruffly, pushing the dog aside; then, starting from his seat, he stood close to Tito, and put a hand on his shoulder as he spoke.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 9d

Only look at the sunlight and shadows on the grand walls that were built solidly, and have endured in their grandeur; look at the faces of the little children, making another sunlight amid the shadows of age.

George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 9d

Or, if you go, mingle with no politicians on the Marmi, or elsewhere; ask no questions about trade in the Calimala; confuse yourself with no inquiries into scholarship, official or monastic.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 9d

Go not down, good Spirit! for the changes are great, and the speech of Florentines would sound as a riddle in your ears.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 12d

It is doubtful whether our soldiers would be maintained if there were not pacific people at home who like to fancy themselves soldiers.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 13d

Nay, nay, Addy, thee mustna say as anybody’s religion’s like thick ale.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 13d

Any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 14d

My sister, thou hast read too many plays, where the writers delight in showing the human passions as indwelling demons, unmixed with the relenting and devout elements of the soul. Thou judgest by the plays, and not by thy own heart.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 15d

But the man was no more than the boy writ large, with an extensive commentary.

George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 16d

Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies, all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty.

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 17d

I did not begin my story till September 22. After I had begun it, as we were walking in the Park, I mentioned to G. that I had thought of the plan of writing a series of stories, containing sketches drawn from my own observation of the Clergy, and calling them “Scenes from Clerical Life.”