George Eliot Quote

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.


The Writings of George Eliot: Middlemarch, a study of provincial life (ed. 1970)


But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys...

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys...

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys...

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys...