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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?
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.
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Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
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Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.
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