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George Eliot
Best friend, my...
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3,...
But what we...
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
He was at...
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen...
Is it not...
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and...
Hostesses who entertain...
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than...
If we had...
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we...
With memory set...
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of...
How could a...
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he...
The growing good...
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me...
A difference of...
A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Source: Daniel...
[T]here is one...
[T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very...
Great feelings will...
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of...
Our words have...
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3,...
It's but little...
It's but little good you'll do awatering the last year's crop.
Source: Adam...
There are some...
There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them...
Self-confidence is apt...
Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a...
She was no...
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in...
It was a...
It was a pity he couldna be hatched o'er again, an' hatched different.
Source: Adam...
The only failure...
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be...
Ignorant kindness may...
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an...