Quote by George Eliot
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is t

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

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Vanity
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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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Science
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Vacations
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. – Ernest Hemingway

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Vacations

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Vacations

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. – Samuel Johnson

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Vacations

College is the longest vacation you will ever take. – Dan Indante and Karl Marks

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Vacations

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Memory itself is an internal rumour. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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Memory

Attention to health is lifes greatest hindrance. – Plato

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fitness

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. – Herbert Read

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Society

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I dont mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. – Charles de Lint

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Art