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Chance works for us when we are good captains.

George Meredith

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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Portsmouth
England
Chance
Good
Captains
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Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
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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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The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
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The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.
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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
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There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
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We are betrayed by what is false within
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Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.
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The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
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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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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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Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.
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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
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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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Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
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A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
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Heiresses are never jilted.
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A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
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Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.
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