“Instead of trying to still his fears he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come;...”

— George Eliot

Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 8 (at page 63)

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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