George Eliot quote about pride from Middlemarch - it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.
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it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect.
 George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872). copy citation

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Author George Eliot
Source Middlemarch
Topic pride intelligence religion
Date 1872
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/145/145-h/145-h.htm

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“Remember you are turned twenty-two now, and you will have no fortune: your father, I am sure, will not be able to spare you anything. Mr. Lydgate is very intellectual and clever; I know there is an attraction in that. I like talking to such men myself; and your uncle finds him very useful. But the profession is a poor one here. To be sure, this life is not everything; but it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect. And you are not fit to marry a poor man.
«Mr. Lydgate is not a poor man, aunt. He has very high connections.»
«He told me himself he was poor.»
«That is because he is used to people who have a high style of living.»” source

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