All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

George Eliot


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i am always bored." (gwendolen harleth)

George Eliot


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Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper.

George Eliot

Tags: clothes dignity



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The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

George Eliot

Tags: conformity conviction



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How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

George Eliot

Tags: compassion pride self-centeredness



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Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

George Eliot

Tags: pain pride



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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

George Eliot

Tags: bookish-introversion



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After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.

George Eliot

Tags: growth career



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It’s an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease.

George Eliot

Tags: fat



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One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

George Eliot

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