“ When uncultured minds, confined to a narrow range of personal experience, are under the pressure of continued misfortune, their inward life is apt to become a perpetually repeated round of sad and bitter thoughts ”
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860). copy citation
| Author | George Eliot |
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| Source | The Mill on the Floss |
| Topic | pressure experience |
| Date | 1860 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6688/6688-h/6688-h.htm |
Context
“And he hated the thought of her marrying poorly, as her aunt Gritty had done; that would be a thing to make him turn in his grave,—the little wench so pulled down by children and toil, as her aunt Moss was. When uncultured minds, confined to a narrow range of personal experience, are under the pressure of continued misfortune, their inward life is apt to become a perpetually repeated round of sad and bitter thoughts; the same words, the same scenes, are revolved over and over again, the same mood accompanies them; the end of the year finds them as much what they were at the beginning as if they were machines set to a recurrent series of movements.”
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