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.

George Eliot


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I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

George Eliot


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In every parting there is an image of death.

George Eliot


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It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot


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Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life

George Eliot


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To many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a particular influence, subduing them into receptiveness.

George Eliot


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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

George Eliot

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Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

George Eliot

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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

George Eliot

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A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping.

George Eliot


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