Quote by George Eliot
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. - Ge

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. – George Eliot

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Marriage
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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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Happiness
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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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Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. – Henry Miller

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Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. – Steven Seagal

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great

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. – Thomas Carlyle

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I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. – Thomas Carlyle

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Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. – Danny Glover

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