George Eliot

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. ↗

— George Eliot

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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ↗

— George Eliot

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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. ↗

— George Eliot

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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. ↗

— George Eliot

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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. ↗

— George Eliot

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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ↗

— George Eliot

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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ↗

— George Eliot

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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. ↗

— George Eliot

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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. ↗

— George Eliot

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