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13535 quotesIt's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.
Getting Ahead
George Eliot
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Change
George Eliot
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Marriage
George Eliot
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Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
Men
George Eliot
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Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
Language
George Eliot
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Giving
George Eliot
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
Evil
George Eliot
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
Recreation
George Eliot
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Death and Dying
George Eliot
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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
Wit
George Eliot
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Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
Prophecy
George Eliot
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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Conscience
George Eliot
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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
Professions and Professionals
George Eliot
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
Conquest
George Eliot
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Language
George Eliot
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Women
George Eliot
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Perfection
George Eliot
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Purpose
George Eliot
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
Failure
George Eliot
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The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
Duty
George Eliot
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Growth
George Eliot
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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
Privacy
George Eliot
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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
Pride
George Eliot
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Failure
George Eliot
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What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Life and Living
George Eliot
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun