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George Eliot Quotes
Brief author info: George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist (Mary Ann Evans) Considered a leading English novelist, particularly for her portrayals of working and agrarian classes. Took charge of household at age sixteen, upon mother's death; educated at home; after father's death in 1849, traveled abroad, then returned to England; became writer, then assistant editor for Westminster Review. W rote first story in 1856, published in 1857; first novel, Adam Bede, immediately successful; The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner also popular; wrote poems and more novels, including Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.
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Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
He was like the cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Relationship Quote
A man keeps another's secret better than he does his own. A woman, on the other hand, keeps her own better than another's.
Life Quote
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Life Quote
The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.
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