Tag: George Eliot
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
George Eliot
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
George Eliot
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot
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Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
George Eliot
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot