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Famous Quotes By George Eliot

Famous Quotes By George Eliot, the pen-name of the English novelist, Mary Ann Evans. She was born on November 22, 1819 and died on December 22, 1880.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

I've never any pity for conceited people because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

I'm not one of those as can see the cat in the dairy, and wonder what she's come after.

She is like the rest of the women - thinks two and two'll come to make five, if she cries and bothers enough about it.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

If the grass on the other side of the fence appears greener...it must be all the fertilizer they are using! - Kevin Rodowicz

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