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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
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Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!
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Trouble's made us kin.
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In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
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In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way it had better ha been left to the men.
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When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.
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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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Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
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bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
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I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.
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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
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And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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