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George Meredith

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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
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Portsmouth
England
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A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
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God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
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The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
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How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
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What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.
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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
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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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Behold the life at ease it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
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See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
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Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
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There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
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Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.
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Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
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Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: an unusual combination, in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.
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Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
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Heiresses are never jilted.
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