Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
GEORGE ELIOTThe troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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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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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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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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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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