I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.


The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851 (ed. 1954)


I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.