It would be misguided and foolish to do so, ... It would undermine public confidence in the markets because states have historically played a critical role in restoring creditability to the marketplace.


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GEORGE ELIOT
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
GEORGE ELIOT
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understa...
GEORGE ELIOT
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go al...
GEORGE ELIOT
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
GEORGE ELIOT
For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or ...
GEORGE ELIOT
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts ...
GEORGE ELIOT
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which w...
GEORGE ELIOT
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for th...
GEORGE ELIOT
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...
GEORGE ELIOT
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
GEORGE ELIOT
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
GEORGE ELIOT
Those who trust us educate us.
GEORGE ELIOT
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disco...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow...
GEORGE ELIOT
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
GEORGE ELIOT
How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances?...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOT
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be call...
GEORGE ELIOT
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
GEORGE ELIOT
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
GEORGE ELIOT
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...
GEORGE ELIOT
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying s...
GEORGE ELIOT
Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first...
GEORGE ELIOT
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
GEORGE ELIOT
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
GEORGE ELIOT
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort t...
GEORGE ELIOT
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
GEORGE ELIOT
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves...
GEORGE ELIOT
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
GEORGE ELIOT
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffe...
GEORGE ELIOT
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
GEORGE ELIOT
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
GEORGE ELIOT
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what mus...
GEORGE ELIOT
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
GEORGE ELIOT