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" Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. "
George Eliot
He
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" Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. "
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" Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. "
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" A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. "
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Happiness
" 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
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Painful
Course
Most
" But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. "
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Human
Talk
Experience
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Fly
Our
" 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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Away
Done
Feeling
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God
Show
Over
" 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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Night
Voice
Sound
" 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. "
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Within
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" Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. "
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Never
Us
Dead
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Heart
Grow
Silence
" 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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Effort
Desire
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Ease
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