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Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside.
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A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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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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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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