There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
George EliotQuarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
George EliotDuty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
George Eliot