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Making Quotes by George Eliot
- There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems…
- 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…
- Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't…
- There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks…
- That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part…
- Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge…
- A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
- Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he…
- We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while…
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