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Expectations Quotes by George Eliot
- A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
- I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to…
- We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
- Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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