One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
GEORGE ELIOTBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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