Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot

Silas Marner · 1861

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Anticipation Disappointment

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Novel

Time

1861

Person

George Eliot

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Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Signet, 2007, ch. 18.

Original citation

Eliot, George. Silas Marner. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861, ch. 18.

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