I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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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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