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«But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«In every parting there is an image of death»
«'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio»
«Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral»
«It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
Doctor Who, part with, trifle
«Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
damnable, humbug, humbugged, humbugs, pills, prescribes
«Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness»
«It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon»
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