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Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.
George Meredith
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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
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Portsmouth
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It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!
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See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
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When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
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A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .
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My religion of life is always to be cheerful.
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Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun When the graps on the bow was decision, And arrow and hand and eye were one When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer, Came heaving for rapture ahead! - Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer As lights over mounds of the dead.
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A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
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Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
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The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit voice.
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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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George Eliot has the heart of Sappho but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.
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Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
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