Quote by George Eliot
A womans heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must

A womans heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot

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dad
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

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Hurt, Injury
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Other Quotes from
Happiness
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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you dont collect all these tiny successes, the big ones dont really mean anything. – Norman Lear

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Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart. – Terri Guillemets

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Happiness

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldnt want to ruin their happiness – even if that happiness is ignorance. – Katy Perry

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Happiness

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. – Fiona Shaw

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Happiness

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Evil men have no songs. How is it that the Russians have songs? – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I know Im guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you dont really prepare for how much work marriage really is. – John Krasinski

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A lot of people think, Ill give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesnt work out Ill go get a law degree, do something else thats more practical. For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. – Brit Marling

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