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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

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? – George Eliot

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Fight, Fighting
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George Eliot
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot

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Experience
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George Eliot
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot

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Hope
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George Eliot
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Other Quotes from
Vacations
category

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe. – Gail Parent

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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

For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have. – Woody Allen

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Vacations

Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated. – Mason Cooley

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Vacations

Random Quotes

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics. – Johnny Mercer, on a British musical

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Insults

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. – Spiro T. Agnew

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Past, the

Its a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise Id be a drag queen. – Dolly Parton

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good

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve. – Tammy Baldwin

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Freedom