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George Eliot Quotes

«The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection»
«It's but little good you'll do, a watering the last year's crop»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: crop, watering
«It's them that takes advantage that get advantage in this world»
«A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories»
«All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Family, Fathers | Keywords: alphabet, birch, birches
«I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.»
«'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.»
«In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness»
«The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: World | Keywords: Analogies, dubious, handsome, hopeful
«I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.»