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Whom Quotes by George Eliot
- These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and…
- You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried…
- He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from…
- But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in…
- A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take…
- 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…
- Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his…
- No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say…
- No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
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