George Eliot
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1819
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.
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It's them that takes advantage that get advantage in this world
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It was a pity he couldna be hatched o'er again, an' hatched different.
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Oh may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence.
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It's but little good you'll do, a watering the last year's crop
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.
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There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio
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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.