One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
GEORGE ELIOTthere 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.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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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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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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