A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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• George Eliot:

  Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

• George Eliot:

  Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

• George Eliot:

  The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

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  And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must b

• George Eliot:

  The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race i

• George Eliot:

  You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suff

• George Eliot:

  I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is f

• George Eliot:

  In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

• George Eliot:

  Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the g

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  The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which