# Quote — George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

> If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.

- 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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