We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
GEORGE ELIOTAnd, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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