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George Eliot: Human beliefs, like...

George Eliot: Human beliefs, like...

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

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George Eliot: I have the...

George Eliot: I have the...

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

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Jane Austen: She was a...

Jane Austen: She was a...

She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Source: In Readers' Digest.
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Judith Viorst: One advantage of...

Judith Viorst: One advantage of...

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with...

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Edith Wharton: There are two...

Edith Wharton: There are two...

There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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Elinor Glyn: Romance is the...

Elinor Glyn: Romance is the...

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

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Patricia McKillip: [Imagination] must be...

Patricia McKillip: [Imagination] must be...

[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at...

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George Eliot: Sir Joshua would...

George Eliot: Sir Joshua would...

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least...

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George Eliot: But human experience...

George Eliot: But human experience...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current...

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George Eliot: Our passions do...

George Eliot: Our passions do...

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions...

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George Eliot: Would not love...

George Eliot: Would not love...

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

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George Eliot: He was at...

George Eliot: 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...

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George Eliot: The growing good...

George Eliot: 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...

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George Eliot: An election is...

George Eliot: An election is...

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of...

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Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...

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Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...

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Ruth Benedict: I haven't strength...

Ruth Benedict: I haven't strength...

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Source: In An Anthropologist at...

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Natasha Josefowitz: You may not...

Natasha Josefowitz: You may not...

You may not be well read, you may not know how to count, you may write poorly, but as soon as you open your mouth...

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