“Some set out, like Crusaders of old, with a glorious equipment of hope and enthusiasm and get broken by the way, wanting patience with each other and the world.”

—  George Eliot , book Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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