George Eliot: Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenne

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off I — George Eliot

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

George Eliot

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