# Quote — George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

> If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.

- Author: [George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md)
- Book: [The Mill on the Floss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/the-mill-on-the-floss.md)
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> These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

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> Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

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> I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

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