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Solid Quotes by George Eliot
- Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination…
- Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
- A good solid bit of work lasts.
- The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way…
- Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as…
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