“ One can begin so many things with a new person! —even begin to be a better man. ”
 George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872). copy citation

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“But this proud openness was made lovable by an expression of unaffected good-will. Mr. Bulstrode perhaps liked him the better for the difference between them in pitch and manners; he certainly liked him the better, as Rosamond did, for being a stranger in Middlemarch. One can begin so many things with a new person!—even begin to be a better man.
«I shall rejoice to furnish your zeal with fuller opportunities,» Mr. Bulstrode answered; «I mean, by confiding to you the superintendence of my new hospital, should a maturer knowledge favor that issue, for I am determined that so great an object shall not be shackled by our two physicians.” source

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