Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
GEORGE ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
More George Eliot Quotes
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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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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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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