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WISE, WITTY, AND TENDER

SAYINGS

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."

Wise books

For half the truths they hold are honoured tombs."

WISE, WITTY, AND TENDER

SAYINGS

IN PROSE AND VERSE

SELECTED FROM THE

WORKS OF GEORGE ELIOT

BY

ALEXANDER MAIN

SECOND EDITION

WITH SUPPLEMENTARY SAYINGS FROM

'MIDDLEMARCH'

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLXXIII

878 2425 M33 1873

A GENIUS AS ORIGINAL AS IT IS PROFOUND

A MORALITY AS PURE AS IT IS