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" People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. "
George Eliot
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" No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. "
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" I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth. "
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" In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. "
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" Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. "
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" I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. "
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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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" But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. "
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" The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. "
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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. "
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" Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. "
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" Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. "
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" Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. "
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" Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. "
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" When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. "
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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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" There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. "
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" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "
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" Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. "
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" In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. "
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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. "
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" Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. "
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" No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. "
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" Adventure is not outside man; it is within. "
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" What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. "
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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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" The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. "
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