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Middlemarch Quotes

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Source:(Penguin Books, ed. 1973), Book V. The Dead Hand, Chapter 51, Page 541
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George Eliot (Middlemarch Quotes)
  • Book: Middlemarch
  • Writer: George Eliot
  • Genre: fiction
  • Published: 1872
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