George Meredith Quotes
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
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There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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Don't just count your years, make your years count.
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
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Kissing don't last: cookery do!
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She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
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Caricature is rough truth.
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Speech is the small change of silence.
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Bring the army of the faithful through.
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I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
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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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The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
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Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
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A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
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The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.