George Eliot Quotes
George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans who was an English novelist and poet.
(1819 - 1880)
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"Ignorance," says Ajax, "is a painless evil." - So, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
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"One soweth and another reapeth" is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
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A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a camel.
[Superstition]
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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills: to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air and watch through darkness.
[Love]
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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
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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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A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
[Hope]
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A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
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Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from anything which he may lawfully claim.
[Abstinence]
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Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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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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Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring; when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.
[Love]
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
[Positive]
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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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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