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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Brothers are so unpleasant.
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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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Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
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Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.
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When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.
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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
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It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
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Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
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Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.
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