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Quotation from Silas Marner by George Eliot

“Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in.”

George Eliot (spoken by Narrator)

Silas Marner, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #550)

Portrait of George Eliot

The narrator comments on Godfrey's hope that luck will deliver him from the consequences of his secret marriage.

Citation: "Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in." — George Eliot, Silas Marner, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #550). (id silas-marner-q2)

Portrait: Silas Marner 1, Published by Blackwood, 1861, Public domain.

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