Luke’s Reviews > Middlemarch > Status Update

I have not taken a bribe yet. But there is a pale shade of bribery which is sometimes called prosperity.

Home stretch.

It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money.

Caleb was very fond of music, and when he could afford it went to hear an oratorio that came within his reach, returning from it with a profound reverence for this mighty structure of tones, which made him sit meditatively looking on the floor and throwing much unutterable language into his outstretched hands.

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettantism and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

...what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Somewhere out in the ether, Evans is laughing her head off at the poor mortal here who thought a section titled 'Three Love Problems' wouldn't be chockful of politics. Though, not as much as she's laughing at the inept one of my presentation group.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner giving, and preference for armoral bearings in our own case link us indissolubly with the established order.

Third group presentation member showed up after four weeks, three books, and two presentations. He cautiously spoke to me as if I was both a hard ass and pissed at him. He's right.