What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
George Eliot · Middlemarch
Wisdom & life
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult…”
- Author
- George Eliot
- Work
- Middlemarch
- Year
- 1871
- Chapter / part
- Chapter LXXII
- Length
- 17 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #145
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. George Eliot died in 1880, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1871. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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