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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot

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.
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Audience One Other Speak Tell Them Understand Walkways Way
It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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Better Condemn Much Paradon Surely Too
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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Account Country Deal Explanation Great Gust Storm Taken Ummpapped
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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Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Come Forward Imagine Look never Ourselves Pass Precisely Thing Way
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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More never Plant Rain Roses Tree Want
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Agree All Call Impulse Name Inspiration Nobel Rapid Through
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Death Kind World
One can say everything best over a meal.
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Bst Can Everything Meal One Over Say
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Adventure Man Outside Within
“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Another Faith Heaven Help Lack More New Old One Religion Teach
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
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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Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Finest Language Made Mostly Simple Unimpse Word
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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Best Capacity Deception Degrad Destry Effectively Malign Most Own Self
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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Daylight Dream Experience Must Walk

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