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    George Eliot

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    All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. ↗


    — George Eliot

    #interpretation #key #know #meanings

    An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. ↗


    — George Eliot

    #before #bray #down #good #may

    Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. ↗


    — George Eliot

    #breeds #cries #death #feed #him

    Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. ↗


    — George Eliot

    #agreeable #ask #criticisms #friends #pass

    It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. ↗


    — George Eliot

    #more #must #never #plant #rain

    Breed is stronger than pasture. ↗


    — George Eliot

    #pasture #stronger #than

    No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. ↗


    — George Eliot

    #certainty #deed #done #great #who

    In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. ↗


    — George Eliot

    #folly #half #hears #laughter #vain

    We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. ↗


    — George Eliot

    #god #hand #mercy #none #ourselves

    I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. ↗


    — George Eliot

    #almighty #foolish #god #god almighty #i






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    Female authors were publiGeorge Eliotd under their own names during Eliot's life but George Eliot wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. Mary Anne (alternatively Mary Ann or Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880) better known by her pen name George Eliot was an English novelist journalist and translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels including Adam Bede (1859) The Mill on the Floss (1860) Silas Marner (1861) Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876) most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

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