there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
GEORGE ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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 like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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