George Eliot Quotes
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The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.
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I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.
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If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
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A good heart 'is worth gold.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
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I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
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Was it possible that Warriors had been mistaken in their view of Magic all along? Could there be another way of looking at things, other than the Warrior way?....Wish's world view was spinning upside down, and that is always a difficult moment.
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Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.
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What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
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The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.
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It is nice that what eventually became the late British Empire has not been ruled by an 'English' dynasty since the early eleventh century: since then a motley parade of Normans (Plantagenets), Welsh (Tudors), Scots (Stuarts), Dutch (House of Orange) and Germans (Hanoverians) have squatted on the imperial throne. No one much cared until the philological revolution and a paroxysm of English nationalism in World War I. House of Windsor rhymes with House of Schönbrunn or House of Versailes.
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The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
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The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
