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Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Mary Anne Evans
Mary Ann Evans
Marian Evans
Mary Anne Evans Cross
Mary Anne Cross
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It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
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Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead.
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Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
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I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.
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