No. 9 of 15 · Quiet Words

Less Difficult to Each Other

Pictures by Design for two cups (detail), France·Words by George Eliot

Two plain white cups, drawn side by side in an eighteenth-century French design, sit above George Eliot's question from Middlemarch: what do we live for, if not to make life less difficult to each other? The quiet drawing of a pair of cups suits words about the people who share our days and ease our load. For someone who has made life gentler for you.

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Inside, it says

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

On the back

Design for two cups (detail), France, c. 1770-90 / Words: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

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