Tag: George Eliot
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Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.
George Eliot
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.
George Eliot
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot
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Consequences are unpitying.
George Eliot
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I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.
George Eliot
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It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
George Eliot
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot