“Each position has its corresponding duties.”

“It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.”

“Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.”

“You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.”

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.”

“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”

“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.”