George Eliot — a remark

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“What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”

Suggesting that familiarity can deepen affection rather than diminish it · Prose remark

About George Eliot

George Eliot

22 November 1819–22 December 1880

George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was born on 22 November 1819 at South Farm on the Arbury estate near Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England, and died in London on 22 December 1880. She became one of the defining writers of the Victorian age, though she reached that position by a route unusually difficult for…

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