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George Eliot: No soul is...

George Eliot: No soul is...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and...

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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: 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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Jane Austen: One cannot have...

Jane Austen: One cannot have...

One cannot have too large a party.

Source: 'Emma'
-- Jane Austen, (Dec 16...

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Jane Austen: With men he...

Jane Austen: With men he...

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature...

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Daisy Ashford: Let us now...

Daisy Ashford: Let us now...

Let us now bask under the spreading trees said Bernard in a passionate tone. Oh yes lets said Ethel and she opened her...

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Madeleine L'Engle: To create a...

Madeleine L'Engle: To create a...

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Source: Ramona, 1884.
-- Helen...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Now and then...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Now and then...

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if...

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George Eliot: I tell you...

George Eliot: I tell you...

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman,...

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George Eliot: Strange, that some...

George Eliot: Strange, that some...

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the...

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George Eliot: Gossip is a...

George Eliot: Gossip is a...

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...

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George Eliot: Friendships begin with...

George Eliot: Friendships begin with...

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: Hatred is like...

George Eliot: Hatred is like...

Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Source: In Webster's...

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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: The reward of...

George Eliot: The reward of...

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Source: Moredecai, in...

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Jane Austen: One has not...

Jane Austen: One has not...

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the...

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Annie Dillard: There is a...

Annie Dillard: There is a...

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the...

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Fran Lebowitz: There is no...

Fran Lebowitz: There is no...

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise...

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