# Quote — George Eliot, Middlemarch

> What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.

- Author: [George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md)
- Book: [Middlemarch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/middlemarch.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/middlemarch/what-do-we-live

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