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Letter "G" » George Eliot Quotes
«There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief /a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.»
«It is never too late to be what you might have been.»
«Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.»
«Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.»
«No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.»
«I desire no future that will break the ties of the past»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.»
«Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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Ignorance
| Keywords:
in all probability, probabilities, range, ranged, ranging, The Range
«Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
impressions, misrepresentation, misrepresentations, quietly, remove it, uncertain, unweave, weaving
«There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.»
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