Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1228
AUTHOR:
George Eliot (1819–80)
QUOTATION:
We must not inquire too curiously into motives…. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.
ATTRIBUTION:
GEORGE ELIOT (Mary Ann Evans), Middlemarch, chapter 2, p. 13 (1977). Originally published in 1871–1872.
