If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
("Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life")
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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.George Eliot
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends.
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
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I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor makeshift way it had better have been left to the men.
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