And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTI flutter all ways, and fly in none.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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