Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOTI desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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