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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

George Eliot

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Ame Interpreter Longer Raed Rather Same Story Use
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Better Condemn Much Paradon Surely Too
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Daylight Dream Experience Must Walk
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
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.
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Contact Creature Deem Depress Full Hardly Knowledge Mind More Year Young Advent
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Genius Intolerant Necessarily
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Beyond Flourish Parqdice Plant Seed Veracity Wall
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Build Down Ignorancem Hour Knowledge Pull Slowly
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Beyond Enough Grave Large Like Love Only Realism Silence
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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Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Defeat Many Victory Worse

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