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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Old men's eyes are like old men's memories they are strongest for things a long way off.
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
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The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
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A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
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... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.
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As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.
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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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It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
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... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.
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Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
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