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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.

George Eliot

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Manage Men Mind Ought Sharp Sheath Velvet
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bed Oppressive Yesterday
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
GEORGE ELIOT

Borne Easy Everybody Give Lift Trouble You
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
GEORGE ELIOT

Being Friend Get Good Into Nonsense Quarrel Rage Sometimes
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
GEORGE ELIOT

Contact Creature Deem Depress Full Hardly Knowledge Mind More Year Young Advent
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Brook Charm Clear Flower Good Know Like Paas Refresh Wood
Consequences are unpitying.
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Consequences Unpitying
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOT

Beauty Bless Earth Feel Human Mighty River Wait
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
GEORGE ELIOT

Conquest Either Sympathy Marriage Must Relation
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
GEORGE ELIOT

Like Love Not Only Told
The 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.
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Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
GEORGE ELIOT

Betims Fool Idleness Myself Pleasure Shape Take Travel
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
GEORGE ELIOT

Call Companion Joy Noth Perpetual Present Sorrow
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
GEORGE ELIOT

Agrresive Animal Ask Criticism Friend No Pass Question Such

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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