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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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Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.Source: Felix Holt, Epilogue...
It is never too late to be what you might have been.Source: In The World's Best...
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we...
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against...
A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter...
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...
I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very, very...
Whenever people say we mustn't be sentimental, you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And, if they add,...
[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget...
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love,...
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.Source: Referring to...
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities...
Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of...
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding...
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.Source: Daniel Deronda, bk....
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? More about this quote
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he...
There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them...
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the...
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