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«It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.»
«It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: inflicted
«That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: mostly
«But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: intimacy
«Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Jokes | Keywords: affections, in jokes, jokes, strain, straining
«I'm more and more impressed with the duty of finding happiness»
«No man can be wise on an empty stomach»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: stomach
«Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: by me, carrying, message, sweeps
«An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to»
«Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Courtesy | Keywords: obliging, tallow

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