George Eliot

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. ↗

— George Eliot

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! ↗

— George Eliot

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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? ↗

— George Eliot

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It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. ↗

— George Eliot

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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. ↗

— George Eliot

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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. ↗

— George Eliot

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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. ↗

— George Eliot

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All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ↗

— George Eliot

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It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. ↗

— George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

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