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When I was young ... there never was any question about right and wrong. We knew our catechism, and that was enough; we learned our creed and our duty. Every respectable Church person had the same opinions. But, now if you speak out of the Prayer-book itself, you are liable to be contradicted.

George Eliot

George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819–1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 17 (1871-1872).

Said by the novel's character named Mrs. Farebrother, mother of the village Vicar. This part of the novel is set in 1829, and Mrs. Farebrother is said to be "still under seventy," so she would have been "young" c. 1760-1780.

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