| Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. |
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- George Eliot |
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| Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. |
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- George Eliot |
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| Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days. |
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- George Eliot |
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| That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. |
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- George Eliot |
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| I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. |
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- George Eliot |
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| There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. |
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- George Eliot |
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| Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving evidence of the fact. |
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- George Eliot |
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| We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. |
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- George Eliot |
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| Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. |
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- George Eliot |
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| Perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. |
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- George Eliot |
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| The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. |
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- George Eliot |
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| Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. |
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- George Eliot |
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| One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. |
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- George Eliot |
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| In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. |
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- George Eliot |
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| Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men. |
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- George Eliot |
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| I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. |
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- George Eliot |
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| It is never too late to be who you might have been. |
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- George Eliot |
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| Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. |
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- George Eliot |
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| She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. |
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- George Eliot |
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| What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. |
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- George Eliot |
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