A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOTTo have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
More George Eliot Quotes
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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