Quotation by George Eliot

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 39 (1871-1872).

Said by the novel's character named Mr. Brooke, a likable but comic figure described as "nearly sixty, of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote."
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