• I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.

    George Eliot: I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
    George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.145