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

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

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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. – George Eliot

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