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Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

George Eliot
Running, Quality, Safe
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.47, Penguin

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

George Eliot
Running, Thinking, Entitlement
George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.72

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

George Eliot
Running, Air, Breathing
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.490, Wordsworth Editions

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

George Eliot
Running, Time, Travel
George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1155, ShandonPress

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

George Eliot
Running, Hobbies, Literature
George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.632, Wordsworth Editions

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

George Eliot
Running, Garden, Thinking
George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1072, Delphi Classics

Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.

George Eliot
Running, Tongue, Clock
George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.458

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