Quote#Wisdom
George Eliot's Salon on Sundays was a stately reception, in which her…
Quote byCharles Kegan Paul · 1828–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memories (1899), p. 336.
English (original)
George Eliot's Salon on Sundays was a stately reception, in which her talk was always well worth hearing: she raised conversation on whatever subject she touched to a higher level. Miss Anna Swanwick is the only other person I know with the same immediate power of raising the conversation with apparent continuity and without seeming to force it.
— Charles Kegan Paul
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