If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.


The Works of George Eliot: Mill on the Floss (ed. 1878)

George Eliot Quotes

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, ...

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, ...

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, ...

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, ...