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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

~George Eliot

Topics: Bachelors Function Go Home Husbands Know Like Make Out Proper Reasons Should Stay Still Stronger Women

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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

~George Eliot

Topics: Account Country Deal Explanation Great Great Deal Our Storms Taken Us Which Within Would

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

~George Eliot

Topics: Anything Christ Doing Faith Jesus Look Lord Miracles Must Pains Prayer Sit Still Thee Through Up Will

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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

~George Eliot

Topics: Acting Idea Less Life More More Or Less Nothing Playing Than

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Consequences are unpitying.

~George Eliot

Topics: Consequences

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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

~George Eliot

Topics: Beforehand Good Nothing Seems

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

~George Eliot

Topics: Come Death Great Never Our Repent Severity Tenderness

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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

~George Eliot

Topics: Away Done Each Effect Embarrassment Existed Feeling Feels Having Intimacy Mutual Once Other Something Which

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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

~George Eliot

Topics: Affections Different Great Jokes Strain Taste

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

~George Eliot

Topics: Giving Know Luxury Must Poor

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: November 22nd, 1819

Died: December 22nd, 1880

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