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.
GEORGE ELIOTA patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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