Marian Evans – my hero

from Adam Bede, Chapter XVII “In Which the Story Pauses a Little”

“And it is these people  – amongst whom your life is passed –  that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love:   it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people, whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire – for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.”