there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
GEORGE ELIOTEvery limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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