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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

Other quotes by George Eliot

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. – George Eliot

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Dissent
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George Eliot
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot

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Failure
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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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Other Quotes from
Vacations
category

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

I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute on;
but I wish that I could get away
And go home to the village of Bruton. – William Cowper

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Vacations

No vacation goes unpunished. – Karl Hakkarainen

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Vacations

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work. – Elbert Hubbard

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Vacations

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No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. – Henry S. Haskins

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Courage

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish Id said something cool, but I was stunned. – Jason Biggs

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cool

But theres not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. Theres too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of. – Pia Zadora

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alone

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while. – Lady Gaga

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Family