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Quote by George Eliot
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfa

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

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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. – George Eliot

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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot

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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? – George Eliot

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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. – Max Beerbohm

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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