For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Famous Quotes / George Eliot

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George Eliot: "For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?"

Quotations about

Among	Better	Channel	Character
Commonness	Confident	Disdainful	Distinguished
Down	Energies	Friends	Influence
Lapse	Liable	Little	Mind
Native	Other	Pinched	Prejudices
Process	Protuberant	Self	Solicitations
Someone	Spotted	Transient	Under
Unfolding	Valued	Whose	Wrong

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations? - George Eliot