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NOVELISTS > novelist > George Eliot
It is, I...
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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
Source: Mr. Lyon, the independent minister, in Felix Holt, The Radical, ch. 5 (1866), said of the pitfalls of scrutinizing oneself too closely.
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880), English novelist; Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., Silas Marner, 1861.