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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

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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge. – George Eliot

Category:
Things, Little Things
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George Eliot
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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

Category:
Vanity
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George Eliot
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He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day… needs to reorganize his life. – George M. Adams

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Vacations

Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. – Author Unknown

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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

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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Vacations

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