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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

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot

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Wisdom
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George Eliot
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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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Happiness
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Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy. – Carlo Collodi

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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. – Berke Breathed

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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. – Lord Byron

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Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. – Rosalia de Castro

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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. – Karl Marx

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I still absolutely love The Sound of Music and anything with Julie Andrews in it. – Kristin Scott Thomas

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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. – George Jean Nathan

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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. – Edgar Allan Poe

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