The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOT
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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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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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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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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All 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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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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