| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 19030 |
| QUOTATION: | It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (18191880), British novelist, editor. Daniel Deronda, bk. 1, ch. 7 (1876).
Of Gwendolen Harleth. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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