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George Eliot
A toddling little...
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each...
To judge wisely,...
To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
Source: In Webster's...
No great deed...
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Source: In
Genius at first...
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Any coward can...
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of...
Few women, I...
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake...
To manage men,...
To manage men, one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
Source: In...
We must find...
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Failure after long...
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...
Play not with...
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers...
Quarrel? Nonsense;...
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being...
Human beliefs, like...
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
If we use...
If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a...
I have the...
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
That's what a...
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's...
Rome, the city...
Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with...
People who can't...
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Source:...
But what we...
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for...
What a wretched...
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...
An ass may...
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
Source: Romola, ch....