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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. - George Eliot

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot

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Funerals
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George Eliot
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? – George Eliot

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Experience
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Dont be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Dont bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Dont waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cynicism

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Cynicism

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection. – Frank Moore Colby

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Cynicism

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. – H. L. Mencken

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Cynicism

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