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Occasions Quotes by George Eliot
- If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning,…
- Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything…
- To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
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