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.
GEORGE ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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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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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.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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