And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTImpatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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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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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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