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" I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. "
George Eliot
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God
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" There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. "
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" What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. "
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" The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. "
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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. "
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" But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. "
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" Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. "
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" No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. "
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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. "
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" We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. "
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" Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. "
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" It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. "
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" Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. "
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" Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? "
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" There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. "
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" All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. "
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" No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. "
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" The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. "
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