British - Author | November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
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