Came across some related words of wisdom in Don Quixote today: "It would be a fine thing, wouldn't it, to have our Maria married to some great count or high and mighty gentleman who every time he happened to feel like it would call her an upstart, a clodhopper's daughter, a country wench who ought to be at the spinning wheel. No, as I live, my husband, it was not for this that I brought up my daughter!"
I love these words of wisdom. And I counter your words with this passage from George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871–72)
“There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. A new dress and a new fortune, in a new house, would not make the real woman new; only more intensely herself.”
Came across some related words of wisdom in Don Quixote today: "It would be a fine thing, wouldn't it, to have our Maria married to some great count or high and mighty gentleman who every time he happened to feel like it would call her an upstart, a clodhopper's daughter, a country wench who ought to be at the spinning wheel. No, as I live, my husband, it was not for this that I brought up my daughter!"
I love these words of wisdom. And I counter your words with this passage from George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871–72)
“There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. A new dress and a new fortune, in a new house, would not make the real woman new; only more intensely herself.”
Amazing! The third Middlemarch reference I've heard in as many days. Strep aside, Mr. Wallace!