Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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George Eliot
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About George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her novels are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was descr…
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
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.
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
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Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.