What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Dorothea Brooke (George Eliot)
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Middlemarch, Book VIII, chapter LXXII; Complete question spoken by Dorothea while defending Lydgate and explaining her wish to help him. Original “to each other” retained.
- Middlemarch, Book VIII, chapter LXXII
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