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George Eliot Quotes about Expectations

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社