A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT
There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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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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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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