Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
GEORGE ELIOTThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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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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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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