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5 quotes from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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In their death they were not divided.
— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
The boat reappeared, but brother and sister had gone down in an embrace never to be parted; living through again in one supreme moment the days when they had clasped their little hands in love, and roamed the daisied fields together.
— Narrator of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“Character,” says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms,—“character is destiny.” But not the whole of our destiny.
— Narrator of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860)
You will find no home with me. You have disgraced us all. You have disgraced my father’s name.
— Tom Tulliver · Tom Tulliver in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860)
I am in love with moistness, and envy the white ducks that are dipping their heads far into the water here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above.
— Narrator of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860)

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