Creative Quotations from George Eliot (1819-1880)

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George Eliot
(1819-1880) born on Nov 22

English novelist. Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., "Silas Marner," 1861.

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A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

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

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Janet's Repentance, ch. 8, in Blackwood's Magazine (1857; repr. in Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858).
R:	In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
A:	In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
N:	Kleismer, in "Daniel Deronda," bk. 3, ch. 23, 1876.
K:	Mr. Dempster, in "Janet's Repentance," ch. 8, 1857.