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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
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
Rarest
Gift
Beauty
Common
Sense
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The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
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Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.
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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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Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
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Caricature is rough truth.
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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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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
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Chance works for us when we are good captains.
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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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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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There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
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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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The well of true wit is truth itself.
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Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
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We are betrayed by what is false within
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See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?
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