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Schriftstellerin (England, 1819 - 1880).

George Eliot · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

George Eliot wäre heute 204 Jahre, 4 Monate, 29 Tage oder 74.660 Tage alt.

Geboren am 22.11.1819
Gestorben am 22.12.1880
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion

• An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
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• Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

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

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• Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbour.

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• As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

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

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• Character is not cut in marble; it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing..

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• Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history or essays. And the strongest of all is the slang of poets.

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• Debasing the moral currency.

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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

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• Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means-one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

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• Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

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• Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

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• Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless; nay, the speech they have resolved not to make.

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• He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination.

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• He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

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• He who rules must humor full as much as he commands.

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• I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

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• I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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

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