“ Doubtless this persistence was the best course for his own dignity: but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. ”
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872). copy citation
Author | George Eliot |
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Source | Middlemarch |
Topic | generosity pride vanity wit |
Date | 1872 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/145/145-h/145-h.htm |