George Eliot

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. ↗

— George Eliot

#every #monster #motives #same #set

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. ↗

— George Eliot

#history #like #nations #women

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. ↗

— George Eliot

#afar #been #deeds #makes #our

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. ↗

— George Eliot

#either #marriage #must #relation #sympathy

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

— George Eliot

#down #hour #ignorance #knowledge #pulls

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice. ↗

— George Eliot

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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. ↗

— George Eliot

#done #each #effect #embarrassment #existed

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. ↗

— George Eliot

#man #may #opposition #persecution #sweet

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. ↗

— George Eliot

#desire #future #i #past #ties

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. ↗

— George Eliot

#could #might #would