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George Eliot: It will never...

George Eliot: It will never...

It will never rain roses; when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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George Eliot: Sympathetic people often...

George Eliot: Sympathetic people often...

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own...

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George Eliot: But most of...

George Eliot: But most of...

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing...

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George Eliot: A toddling little...

George Eliot: A toddling little...

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each...

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George Eliot: More helpful than...

George Eliot: More helpful than...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

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Jane Austen: It is happy...

Jane Austen: It is happy...

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing...

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Jane Austen: Let other pens...

Jane Austen: Let other pens...

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Source: Mansfield Park, Ch. 48
-- Jane...

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Jane Austen: In every power,...

Jane Austen: In every power,...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the...

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Jane Austen: Single women have...

Jane Austen: Single women have...

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of...

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Jane Austen: There is safety...

Jane Austen: There is safety...

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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Margaret Drabble: The human mind...

Margaret Drabble: The human mind...

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

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Dorothy Parker: There was never...

Dorothy Parker: There was never...

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there...

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Susan Sontag: I envy paranoids;...

Susan Sontag: I envy paranoids;...

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

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Susan Sontag: In America, the...

Susan Sontag: In America, the...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents...

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Susan Sontag: Sadomasochism has always...

Susan Sontag: Sadomasochism has always...

Sadomasochism has always been the furthest reach of the sexual experience: when sex becomes most purely sexual, that...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Be just -- not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye...

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Helen Rowland: When you see...

Helen Rowland: When you see...

When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Since it is...

Simone de Beauvoir: Since it is...

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: I speak truth,...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: I speak truth,...

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown...

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Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

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