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" Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. "
George Eliot
Heat
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Progress
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" Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. "
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" The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. "
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" I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. "
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" I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. "
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" Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. "
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" If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. "
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Silence
" The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. "
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" We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. "
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Show
Over
" The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. "
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" Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. "
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Bite
Truth
" The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. "
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" We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. "
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Affection
Heaven
" Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. "
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Acting
More
" When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. "
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" And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. "
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Man
Woman
" Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. "
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Loving
Soul
Love
" 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. "
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Go
Stronger
Like
" 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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Enough
Seventy
Turn
" Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. "
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Might
Could
Contemptible
" The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. "
George Eliot
Race
Action
Again
" 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. "
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Play
Own
Others
" Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. "
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Look
Only
Depths
" Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. "
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Vanity
Return
Ease
" Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. "
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Hobbies
You
Us
" In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. "
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Ability
Some
Experience
" You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. "
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Try
Genius
Girl
" When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. "
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Whatever
Deal
" There are many victories worse than a defeat. "
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Victories
Defeat
Failure
" Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. "
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Beforehand
Seems
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