Trouble’s made us kin.
GEORGE ELIOTA patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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