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Famous George Eliot Quotes
“Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!”
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
“And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
“Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.”
“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”
“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”
“We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves”
“I flutter all ways, and fly in none.”
“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”
“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
“It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.”
“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”
“Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.”
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”