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Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.
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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
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Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.
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There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
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Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
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