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Hear Everything and judge for yourself
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
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Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.
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I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.
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Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
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I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.
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To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.
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Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
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