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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

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. – George Eliot

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Self-Discovery
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George Eliot
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How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice… – George Eliot

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Rivers
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George Eliot
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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in. – George Eliot

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Consequences
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George Eliot
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A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. – Boris Yeltsin

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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. – Benjamin Disraeli

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From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today. – John Hoeven

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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Science is but an image of the truth. – Francis Bacon

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In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it. – Mitch Daniels

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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. – Charles Darwin

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He who hesitates is probably right. – Bogovich

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