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Silas Marner
by George Eliot
"... honest folk, born and bred in a visible manner, were mostly not overwise or clever -- at least, not beyond such a matter as knowing the signs of the weather"
"... a pleasant sense of scornful superiority ..."
"To them pain and mishap present a far wider range of possibilities than gladness and enjoyment: their imagination is almost barren of the images that feed desire and hope, but is all overgrown by recollections that are a perpetual pasture to fear. 'Is there anything you can fancy that you would like to eat?' I once said to an old labouring man, who was in his last illness, and who had refused all the food his wife had offered him. 'No,' he answered, 'I've never been used to nothing but common victual, and I can't eat that.' Experience had bred no fancies in him that could raise the phantasm of appetite."
"... where it was never reached by the vibrations of the coach-horn, or of public opinion."
"But there might be such a thing as a man's soul being loose from his body, and going out and in, like a bird out of its nest and back; and that was how folks got over-wise, for they went to school in this shell-less state to those who could teach them more than their neighbours could learn with their five senses and the parson."
"The results of confession were not contingent, they were certain; whereas betrayal was not certain."
"... said the Squire, who regarded physic and doctors as many loyal churchmen regard the church and the clergy -- tasting a joke against them when he was in health, but impatiently eager for their aid when anything was the matter with him."
"... a pleasant sense of scornful superiority ..."
"To them pain and mishap present a far wider range of possibilities than gladness and enjoyment: their imagination is almost barren of the images that feed desire and hope, but is all overgrown by recollections that are a perpetual pasture to fear. 'Is there anything you can fancy that you would like to eat?' I once said to an old labouring man, who was in his last illness, and who had refused all the food his wife had offered him. 'No,' he answered, 'I've never been used to nothing but common victual, and I can't eat that.' Experience had bred no fancies in him that could raise the phantasm of appetite."
"... where it was never reached by the vibrations of the coach-horn, or of public opinion."
"But there might be such a thing as a man's soul being loose from his body, and going out and in, like a bird out of its nest and back; and that was how folks got over-wise, for they went to school in this shell-less state to those who could teach them more than their neighbours could learn with their five senses and the parson."
"The results of confession were not contingent, they were certain; whereas betrayal was not certain."
"... said the Squire, who regarded physic and doctors as many loyal churchmen regard the church and the clergy -- tasting a joke against them when he was in health, but impatiently eager for their aid when anything was the matter with him."