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

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Death
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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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Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivariuss violins without Antonio. – George Eliot

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Violins
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Other Quotes from
Vacations
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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

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. – William James

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Vacations

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Vacations

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Vacations

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. – Amelia Earhart

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Home

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune. – Michel de Montaigne

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Suicide

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents. – Allyson Felix

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amazing

Ah, the power of two. Theres nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons? – Sloane Crosley

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parenting