George Eliot Quotes

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

George Eliot

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• 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

  

  George Eliot
  • God
  • Skill
  • VIolins