The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
GEORGE ELIOTAnd, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
More George Eliot Quotes
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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