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Kelly
is on page 357 of 880
“…had thought that instead of needing to know what he should do, he should by this time know that he needed to do nothing…and all this was to have come without study or other inconvenience purely by the favour of providence.” p342-3
“…an accomplished creature who venerated his high musings and labours and would never interfere with them; who would create order in the home and accounts with magic.” p352
— Feb 28, 2026 08:52PM
“…an accomplished creature who venerated his high musings and labours and would never interfere with them; who would create order in the home and accounts with magic.” p352
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Kelly
is on page 387 of 880
“To his preoccupied mind all subjects were to be approached gently…” p373
“All through his life Mr. Casaubon had been trying not to admit even to himself the inward sores of self-doubt and jealousy.” p377
“He may not know his own opinions, but he does know his own pocket.” p381
“I should be afraid of their reckoning up all my fishing days.” p384
— 2 hours, 43 min ago
“All through his life Mr. Casaubon had been trying not to admit even to himself the inward sores of self-doubt and jealousy.” p377
“He may not know his own opinions, but he does know his own pocket.” p381
“I should be afraid of their reckoning up all my fishing days.” p384
Kelly
is on page 372 of 880
“…like the discovery that your neighbour has set up an unpleasant kind of manufacture which will be permanently under your nostrils without legal remedy.” p359
“…when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition:…any one who admires him passes an oblique criticism on ourselves.” p360
“…but our tongues are little triggers…usually pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.” p 365
— 14 hours, 46 min ago
“…when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition:…any one who admires him passes an oblique criticism on ourselves.” p360
“…but our tongues are little triggers…usually pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.” p 365
Kelly
is on page 342 of 880
“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.” p332
Mary too, was agitated: she was conscious that fatally, without will of her own, she had perhaps made a great difference to Fred’s lot.” p340
— Feb 27, 2026 07:50PM
Mary too, was agitated: she was conscious that fatally, without will of her own, she had perhaps made a great difference to Fred’s lot.” p340
Kelly
is on page 331 of 880
“One is constantly wondering what sort of lives other people lead, and how they take things.” p326
“Mr. Casaubon, indeed, had not thoroughly represented those mixed reasons to himself; irritated feeling with him, as with all of us, seeking rather for justification than for self-knowledge.” p329
Everything is symbolical you know…but not too far - it’s rather straining to keep up with, you know.” p330
— Feb 26, 2026 06:51PM
“Mr. Casaubon, indeed, had not thoroughly represented those mixed reasons to himself; irritated feeling with him, as with all of us, seeking rather for justification than for self-knowledge.” p329
Everything is symbolical you know…but not too far - it’s rather straining to keep up with, you know.” p330
Kelly
is on page 323 of 880
"Mary was fond of her own thoughts, and could amuse herself well sitting in twilight with her hands in her lap; for, having early had strong reason to believe that things were not likely to be arranged for her peculiar satisfaction, she wasted no time in astonishment and annoyance at that fact." p314
"I cannot help that, sir. I will not let the close of your life soil the beginning of mine." p316
— Jan 10, 2026 11:47AM
"I cannot help that, sir. I will not let the close of your life soil the beginning of mine." p316
Kelly
is on page 314 of 880
“…(there are such troublesome people in most families; perhaps even in the highest aristocracy there are Brobdingnag specimens, gigantically in debt…)…the troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.” p305 🙌🏻
…against false opinion, of which there is so much to correct in the world that a man of some reading and experience necessarily has his patience tried.” p310
— Jan 09, 2026 09:32AM
…against false opinion, of which there is so much to correct in the world that a man of some reading and experience necessarily has his patience tried.” p310
Kelly
is on page 303 of 880
“He was coming to England to try his fortune, as many other young men were obliged to do whose only capital was in their brains.” p275
“Anyone who imagines ten days is too short a time…is ignorant of what can go on in the elegant leisure of a young lady’s mind.” p300
“Remember that the ambitious man who was looking at those Forget-me-nots under the water was very warm-hearted and rash.” p301
— Jan 07, 2026 07:47PM
“Anyone who imagines ten days is too short a time…is ignorant of what can go on in the elegant leisure of a young lady’s mind.” p300
“Remember that the ambitious man who was looking at those Forget-me-nots under the water was very warm-hearted and rash.” p301
Kelly
is on page 286 of 880
“…the stifling oppression of that gentlewoman’s world, where everything was done for her and none asked her aid…marriage…had not yet freed her from the gentlewoman’s oppressive liberty.” p274 ❤️
“…and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.” p283 😆
— Jan 06, 2026 01:22PM
“…and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.” p283 😆
Kelly
is on page 274 of 880
“…in fact, she never thought of money except as something necessary which other people would always provide.” p268
“Really, the men in Middlemarch, except Mr. Farebrother, were great bores, and Lydgate did not care about commercial politics or cards: what was he to do for relaxation?” p268
— Jan 04, 2026 05:38PM
“Really, the men in Middlemarch, except Mr. Farebrother, were great bores, and Lydgate did not care about commercial politics or cards: what was he to do for relaxation?” p268
Kelly
is on page 264 of 880
“…but politeness in a man who has placed you at a disadvantage is only an additional exasperation,…” p261
“But as to Bulstrode - the report may be true of some other son.” p263
— Jan 03, 2026 02:38PM
“But as to Bulstrode - the report may be true of some other son.” p263
