The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
GEORGE ELIOTAll meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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