It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOTA patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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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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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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