Generosity Quote by George Eliot

“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”

George Eliot

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Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

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“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out…

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“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…

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What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

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“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure…

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