What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
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George Eliot quotes & passages
2 passages by George Eliot, from Middlemarch. George Eliot died in 1880, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: 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.
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