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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.


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GEORGE ELIOT Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
GEORGE ELIOT My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measu...
GEORGE ELIOT Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputat...
GEORGE ELIOT I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them...
GEORGE ELIOT The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is...
GEORGE ELIOT Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
GEORGE ELIOT Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fow...
GEORGE ELIOT The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our eg...
GEORGE ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of...
GEORGE ELIOT Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.
GEORGE ELIOT Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
GEORGE ELIOT More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
GEORGE ELIOT Hear Everything and judge for yourself
GEORGE ELIOT Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
GEORGE ELIOT Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while...
GEORGE ELIOT Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh th...
GEORGE ELIOT There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere...
GEORGE ELIOT He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoug...
GEORGE ELIOT Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity
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