An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
GEORGE ELIOTConscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
More George Eliot Quotes
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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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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One can say everything best over a meal.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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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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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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