The only conscience we can trust to is the massive sense of wrong in a class, and the best wisdom that will work is the wisdom of balancing claims. That’s my text—which side is injured? I support the man who supports their claims, not the virtuous upholder of the wrong.
George EliotIt is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.
George EliotThe yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
George EliotHer shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so.
George Eliot[She] looked as if her nerves were quivering with the expectation that something would be thrown at her. But she never had anything worse than words to dread.
George EliotI don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions.
George EliotI think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
George EliotFollows here the strict receipt
For that sauce to faint meat,
Named idleness, which many eat
By preference, and call it sweet:
First watch for morsels, like a hound
Mix well with buffets, stir them round
With good thick oil of flattered,
And froth with mean self-lauding lies.
Serve warm: the vessels you must choose
To keep it in are dead men's shoes.
The effect of Dorothea's being on those around her was incalculable diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
George EliotIt's ill guessing what the bats are flying after.
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