And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOTOne can say everything best over a meal.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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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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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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