Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOTThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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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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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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