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Middlemarch

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A novel by George Eliot containing a crushing quote about middle-aged men whose youthful idealism gradually fades into conformity.

Mentions (3)
"for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
A Hidden Life (2017) · u/Gill-Nye-The-Blahaj · ↑69 · 2024-04-17
"For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen afte"
Middlemarch by George Eliot · u/Bay_gitch123 · ↑36 · 2024-01-25
"For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."
Middlemarch by George Eliot · u/Bay_gitch123 · ↑36 · 2024-01-25
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