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Quote by George Eliot
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

Category:
Death
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George Eliot
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot

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Nature
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George Eliot
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We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. – George Eliot

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Curiosity
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George Eliot
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Other Quotes from
Time
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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. – Bruce Springsteen

Category:
Time

Know how to live the time that is given you. – Dario Fo

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Time

If you kiss on the first date and its not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes its better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else. – Jennifer Lopez

Category:
Time

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. – Emily Dickinson

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Time

Random Quotes

It is not a fragrant world. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Curmudgeonesque

But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. – W. E. B. Du Bois

Category:
Women

Its very trying on a marriage when youre doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You dont have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority. – Gavin MacLeod

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Marriage

A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Censorship