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George Eliot

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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
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It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us as if life were not sacred too.
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There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.
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I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.
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When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.
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Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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