The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
GEORGE ELIOTWill not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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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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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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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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