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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. - George Eliot

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. – George Eliot

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Sympathetic people often dont communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. – George Eliot

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Sympathy
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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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George Eliot
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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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Illusion
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George Eliot
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Other Quotes from
Cynicism
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. – Sydney J. Harris

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Cynicism

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cynicism

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