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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.

George Eliot

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Fail Gem Life Say Speak Them World
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Adventure Man Outside Within
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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Also Like Love Mind Same Sure Told
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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Bed Oppressive Yesterday
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
A good horse makes short miles.
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Good Horse Make Miles Short
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Dreary Life Make Motive Want
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Distrust Loneliness Lonely More
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
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Echo Live Perpetual Soul
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
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 ELIOT

Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware

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