Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
GEORGE ELIOT… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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