In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
GEORGE ELIOTTrouble’s made us kin.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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.
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