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Madeleine L'Engle: The great thing...

Madeleine L'Engle: The great thing...

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

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George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder...

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George Eliot: The beginning of...

George Eliot: The beginning of...

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Source: Felix Holt,...

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George Eliot: But that intimacy...

George Eliot: But that intimacy...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...

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George Eliot: There are glances...

George Eliot: There are glances...

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

Source: Felix...

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George Eliot: Perhaps the most...

George Eliot: Perhaps the most...

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more...

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George Eliot: People who can't...

George Eliot: People who can't...

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Source:...

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George Eliot: Oh may I...

George Eliot: Oh may I...

Oh may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their...

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George Eliot: Life is too...

George Eliot: Life is too...

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly...

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George Eliot: There are men...

George Eliot: There are men...

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

Source: Romola,...

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Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...

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Enid Bagnold: Who wants to...

Enid Bagnold: Who wants to...

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To Why am I here? To uselessness. It's...

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Hannah Arendt: The point, as...

Hannah Arendt: The point, as...

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Source: Crises of the...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Source:...

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Beah Richards: Both class and...

Beah Richards: Both class and...

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to...

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Oprah Winfrey: I don't think...

Oprah Winfrey: I don't think...

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early...

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Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Source: Attributed last words; in A Certain World,...

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Emily Dickinson: I hope you...

Emily Dickinson: I hope you...

I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.

Source:...

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Emily Dickinson: The Soul unto...

Emily Dickinson: The Soul unto...

The Soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend --
Or the most agonizing Spy --
An Enemy --could send...

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Emily Dickinson: Unto a broken...

Emily Dickinson: Unto a broken...

Unto a broken heart
No other one may go
Without the high prerogative
Itself hath suffered...

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