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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

~George Eliot

Topics: Deal Exclusion Get Great Great Deal Limitation Mere Ourselves Soon Turns Whatever Wishing

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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

~George Eliot

Topics: Breaking Effect Faces Funeral Look Never Night Same Silence Solemn Sound Voice Worldly

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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

~George Eliot

Topics: Dead Fingers Handle Happen Make May Order Others Own Paradoxes Play Quality Them Things Which You Your

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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

~George Eliot

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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

~George Eliot

Topics: Come Happiness May Prepare Self Should Try Whether Without

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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

~George Eliot

Topics: Breeds Cases Climb Hatred Inflict Injuries Injury Ladder Over Sense Some Them Which Will

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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

~George Eliot

Topics: Anger Bear Jealousy Lose Love More Objects Sight Than

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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

~George Eliot

Topics: Crow Had He Hear Him Like Risen Sun Thought Who

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I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

~George Eliot

Topics: Almighty Foolish God God Almighty Made Match Men Women Women Are

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I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

~George Eliot

Topics: About Childbirth Get Like Pregnant Sure Trying

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 22nd, 1819

Died: December 22nd, 1880

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