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Letter "G" » George Eliot Quotes
«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»
«An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down»
«I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense»
«If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind»
«There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life»
«A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side»
«The law's made to take care o' raskills»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«One way of getting an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures»
«The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world»
«When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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