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Apt Quotes by George Eliot
- We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.…
- 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…
- We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
- But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him…
- We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
- But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love.…
- We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
- Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
- Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
- Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,…
- If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age…
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