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Middlemarch Quotes

Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Source:(Penguin Books, ed. 1973), Book VIII. Sunset and Sunrise, Chapter 72, Page 790
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  • Book: Middlemarch
  • Writer: George Eliot
  • Genre: fiction
  • Published: 1872
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