All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
GEORGE ELIOT
The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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