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Adam Bede

George Eliot

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1. See the difference between the impression a man makes on you when you walk by his side in familiar talk, or look at him in his home, and the figure he makes when seen from a lofty historical level, or even in the eyes of a critical neighbor who thinks of him as an embodied system or opinion rather than as a man.


2. No: people who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.


3. “A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature.”


4. No wonder man’s religion has so much sorrow in it: no wonder he needs a Suffering God.


5. The bucolic character at Hayslope, you perceive, was not of that entirely genial, merry, broad-grinning sort, apparently observed in most districts visited by artists.