to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'. - George Eliot
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
- George Eliot
A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it. - George Eliot
A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling. - George Eliot
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. - George Eliot
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored. - 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
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. - George Eliot
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. - George Eliot
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be. - George Eliot
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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