George Eliot quotes

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It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
The sense of an entailed disadvantage--the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, ...
There are some cases ... in which the sense of injury breeds--not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, bu ...
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking ...
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, th ...
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is th ...
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense b ...
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas ...
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
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