The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTThe years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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