The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.George Eliot
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
George Eliot
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
George Eliot
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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