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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
By George Eliot
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
By George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
By George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow
By George Eliot
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
By George Eliot
But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
By George Eliot
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
By George Eliot
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.
By George Eliot
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
By George Eliot
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
By George Eliot
Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
By George Eliot
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
By George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
By George Eliot
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
By George Eliot
An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to
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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.
By George Eliot
. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.
By George Eliot
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
By George Eliot
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
By George Eliot