Cant Quote by George Eliot

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

— George Eliot

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

— George Eliot

What is opportunity to a man who can't use it.

— George Eliot

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Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

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Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

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