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- One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- It's never too late to be who you might have been.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Middlemarch
- Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Silas Marner (1861)
- Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1
- Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Scenes of Clerical Life - Amos Barton
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