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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

George Eliot

It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
GEORGE ELIOT

Corner Fill Got Hole Money No Pocket Use
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
GEORGE ELIOT

Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
GEORGE ELIOT

Adventure Man Outside Within
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Brook Charm Clear Flower Good Know Like Paas Refresh Wood
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOT

Act Feel Know More People Us Want
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Another Consequences Defiance One Thing
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOT

Kill Once Suspicious
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT

Always Disposition Meaner Patronizing Side
Trouble’s made us kin.
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Made Trouble Us
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Borne Easy Everybody Give Lift Trouble You
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
GEORGE ELIOT

Close Glory Leave Margin See Speck Tiny Vision
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afford Fate Instruments Melodies Once Religious Set Some Sort Taken Up Woefully
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
GEORGE ELIOT

Chaff Content Friend Gentile Grain Hand Heart Know Many Own Pour Together

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