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George Eliot

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  1819 - 1880

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  British

   

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• "A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe." - George Eliot
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• "Adventure is not outside man; it is within." - George Eliot
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• "All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other." - George Eliot
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• "But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with." - George Eliot
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• "Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course." - George Eliot
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• "Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster." - George Eliot
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• "Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas." - George Eliot
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• "I desire no future that will break the ties with the past." - George Eliot
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• "Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress." - George Eliot
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• "The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another." - George Eliot
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• "There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms." - George Eliot
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• "We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been." - George Eliot
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