Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOTA good horse makes short miles.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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