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Quote by George Eliot
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early o

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot

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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. – George Eliot

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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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