even begin to be a better man
Another Middlemarch line on this topic is, "people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are." This is expressed by idealistic Dorothea rather than the narrator, so it's unclear whether Eliot "really" believes it.
Another Middlemarch line on this topic is, "people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are." This is expressed by idealistic Dorothea rather than the narrator, so it's unclear whether Eliot "really" believes it.