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George Eliot quotes

1819–1880 · English novelist

Mary Ann Evans wrote as George Eliot so her novels would be taken seriously. Middlemarch is often named the greatest novel in English.

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2 quotes traced to George Eliot's own work or a reliable witness.

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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Source: Middlemarch, ch. 72 (1872)
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879)

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1 famous lines credited to George Eliot that are misquoted, unsourced or belong to someone else.

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Actually: Not found in any of Eliot's novels, essays or letters. It was attached to her name in the late 20th century.