George Eliot Quotes about Water
There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede”, p.345, George Eliot
To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.
George Eliot (1869). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.225
George Eliot (1852). “Middlemarch”, p.230