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Quotes by George Eliot
- A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
- A woman's 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.
- All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
- An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
- And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
- Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
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