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Rather Quotes by George Eliot
- It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core…
- Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I…
- We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
- The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
- No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
- Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them…
- I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go…
- When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually…
- It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
- An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall…
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