And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTOf 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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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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