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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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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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Im not denyin the women are foolish. God Almighty made em to match the men. – George Eliot

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God
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot

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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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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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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. – Elbert Hubbard

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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return. – Samuel Johnson

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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown

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If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. – Luther Burbank

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I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. Im an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. – Cat Stevens

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Although they can do it all the time, you know, theyre far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, theyre out of my league. – Eric Clapton

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