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Caricature is rough truth.

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
Rough
Artist
Art
Truth
Caricature
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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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Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.
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The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
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A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
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Behold the life at ease it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
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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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Heiresses are never jilted.
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The well of true wit is truth itself.
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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
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The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.
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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
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She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.
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Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.
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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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Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
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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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