And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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