Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880
Birthday: November 22
Death: December 22
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
source: George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.683, Xist Publishing
topic: Opportunity, Views, Cheerful, Candor, Middlemarch