Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot
All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot
Sympathetic people often dont communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. – George Eliot
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