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George Eliot: The sense of...

George Eliot: The sense of...

The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active...

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George Eliot: When death, the...

George Eliot: When death, the...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...

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George Eliot: Might, could, would...

George Eliot: Might, could, would...

Might, could, would -- they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Source: Mary Garth, in...

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George Eliot: It is, I...

George Eliot: It is, I...

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a...

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Helen Keller: The world is...

Helen Keller: The world is...

The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright...

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Fran Lebowitz: Children are rarely...

Fran Lebowitz: Children are rarely...

Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and...

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Erma Bombeck: Women are never...

Erma Bombeck: Women are never...

Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift...

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Emily Dickinson: A letter always...

Emily Dickinson: A letter always...

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal...

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Oprah Winfrey: If all this...

Oprah Winfrey: If all this...

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life...

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George Eliot: A patronizing disposition...

George Eliot: A patronizing disposition...

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Source: Adam Bede.
--...

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George Eliot: When death comes...

George Eliot: When death comes...

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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George Eliot: I've never any...

George Eliot: I've never any...

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with...

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Jane Austen: I do not...

Jane Austen: I do not...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...

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Jane Austen: The sooner every...

Jane Austen: The sooner every...

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Source: Emma, Ch. 25
-- Jane...

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George Eliot: It is generally...

George Eliot: It is generally...

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of...

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Erma Bombeck: I am not...

Erma Bombeck: I am not...

I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Helen Keller: I thank God...

Helen Keller: I thank God...

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

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Helen Keller: The hands of...

Helen Keller: The hands of...

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so...

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Dorothy Parker: Drink, and dance...

Dorothy Parker: Drink, and dance...

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But,...

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Dorothy Parker: Love is like...

Dorothy Parker: Love is like...

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts...

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