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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

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Im not denyin the women are foolish. God Almighty made em to match the men. – George Eliot

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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. – George Eliot

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell

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Choose your lifes mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. – Samuel Johnson

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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. – Immanuel Kant

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