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Better Quotes by George Eliot
- One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
- I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than…
- It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance…
- If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me…
- Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection…
- Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree…
- Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but…
- Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a…
- If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
- I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider…
- For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our…
- It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
- And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
- And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she…
- One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
- Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than -…
- People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
- No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say…
- Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brandof slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
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