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Quote of the day by George Eliot: ‘The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to….’
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
George Eliot is best known for Middlemarch but she also wrote an early work of science fiction
Quote of the Day by George Eliot: 'What do we live for, if it is not to…'—Inspiring quotes by the famous E
Fans of George Eliot are in for a shock: Bird Grove at Hampstead Theater reviewed
Quote of the day by George Eliot: 'It is never too late to be what you might have been.'
Quote of the Day by George Eliot: 'It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self....'
‘George Eliot’ among 25 female writers being republished using their real names
George Eliot: 200 years on, valuable lessons for today’s millennials and baby boomers