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Quote by George Eliot
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early o

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot

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A womans 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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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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If all hearts were open and all desires known — as they would be if people showed their souls — how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place! – Thomas Hardy

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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

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You may drive a dog off the Kings armchair, and it will climb into the preachers pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed. – Jean De La Bruyere

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I believe in the sun even if it isnt shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent. – Anon.

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