George Meredith Quotes
An English novelist and poet during the Victorian era.
(1828 - 1909)
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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
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A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this, our life!
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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
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Bring the army of the faithful through.
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Caricature is rough truth.
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Chance works for us when we are good captains.
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.
[Observation]
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism, without the coxcomb's feathers.
[Cynicism]
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Don't just count your years, make your years count.
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I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
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Kissing don't last: cookery do.
[Food]
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
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Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
[Prayer]
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Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
[Literature]
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She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.
[Prayer]
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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
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Speech is the small change of silence.
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