Tag: George Eliot
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People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George Eliot
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot
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Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
George Eliot
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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
George Eliot
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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
George Eliot
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot