“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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