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Opportunity Quotes by George Eliot
- Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone…
- What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
- What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?
- It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
- What is opportunity to a man who can't use it.
- To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view…
- The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
- Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
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