You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Source: Esther to Felix, in Felix Holt, The Radical, ch. 5, 1866.
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There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life.
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
Source: Middlemarch, bk. 1, ch. 10, 1872.