Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

George Eliot · Middlemarch (1871–1872), ch. 10

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

George Eliot

Young love-making, that gossamer web! The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.

George Eliot · The narrator on Lydgate and Rosamond falling in love in Middlemarch, chapter 36, 1871.

In every parting there is an image of death.

George Eliot

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Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

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Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood—sex and the dead.

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“Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.”

“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”

“Young love-making, that gossamer web! The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.”

“In every parting there is an image of death.”

“Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.”

“Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood—sex and the dead.”

“If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.”