> should surely be a sort of natural priesthood, whom life has disciplined and consecrated to be the refuge and rescue of early stumblers and victims of self-despair. — George Eliot (@GeorgeEliot_) March 16, 2021 [https://twitter.com/GeorgeEliot_/status/1371841412824768512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> “People will talk,” he said. “Even if a man has been acquitted by a jury, they’ll talk." — George Eliot (@GeorgeEliot_) February 13, 2021 [https://twitter.com/GeorgeEliot_/status/1360701048965521408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> “One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.” George Eliot died 140 years ago today, leaving us some tremendous literature and her lived lesson in why we grow happier as we grow older: https://t.co/WfRKMgNwUs — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) December 22, 2020 [https:…
> Not without some triumphant amusement. — George Eliot (@GeorgeEliot_) November 7, 2020 [https://twitter.com/GeorgeEliot_/status/1325114767934189570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > I weep for joy — William Shakespeare (@Wwm_Shakespeare) November 7, 2020 [https://twitter.com/Wwm_Shakespeare/status/1325115109929259009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > Cars now honking happily…
> What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? — George Eliot (@GeorgeEliot_) March 13, 2020 [https://twitter.com/…
> OH in coffee line: Feels like this is a Hong Kong moment for us. Wonder when the streets will be filled for days with protests. — Jeffrey Cufaude (@jc46202) February 12, 2020 [https://twitter.com/jc46202/status/1227576012873097216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > “It is time we had done referring…
For years my favorite line in Middlemarch has been Lady Chettam's He is a gentleman. I heard him talking to Humphrey. He talks well. Now it's got some competition. > ‘The strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.’ Fred Vincy in #Middlemarch [https://twitter.…
> Great tweet, @nathankhensley [https://twitter.com/nathankhensley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] And wow—you got to take a photo of the Middlemarch manuscript? Is that because it is touring? Or is this one of the BL’s digitized pages? They have posted some images but wouldn’t you LOVE…