George eliot

In every parting there is an image of death.

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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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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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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

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I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

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