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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

George Eliot

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Finest Language Made Mostly Simple Unimpse Word
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Conquest Either Sympathy Marriage Must Relation
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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All Hard Know Language Learn Much Suffer Understand
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Conviction Deepen Degree Develop Experience Measure Moral Own Progress
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Conscience Enemy Harder
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Been Children Could Eath Loved never Well
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Been Come Duty Find Have Make Must Out
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Difficulty Each Other Less Live Make
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
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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Alive Give Long never Seem Thoroughly While Wish
I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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Always Description Except Excite Like Nothing Play Story Tell Tiresome Traveller
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Earth Fit Heaven Jew Most Useful

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

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