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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
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May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good some little grace one kindly thought one aspiration yet unfelt one bit of courage for the darkening sky one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.
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Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
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That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.
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