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«She was perfectly quiet now, but not asleep--only soothed by sweet porridge and warmth into that wide-gazing calm which makes us older human beings, with our inward turmoil, feel a certain awe in the presence of a little child, such as we feel before some quiet majesty or beauty in the earth or sky--before a steady glowing planet, or a full-flowered eglantine, or the bending trees over a silent pathway.»
«Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«Breed is stronger than pasture»
«Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress»
«We cannot reform our forefathers»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
«No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters»
«Blows are sarcasms turned stupid»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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