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Lyriker, Romancier, "Der Egoist" (England, 1828 - 1909).

George Meredith · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

George Meredith wäre heute 197 Jahre, 3 Monate, 8 Tage oder 72.051 Tage alt.

Geboren am 12.02.1828 in Portsmouth/Hampshire
Gestorben am 18.05.1909 in Flint Cottage/Dorking
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann

• Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

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• I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

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• In . . . the Book of Egoism it is written: Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

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• In action Wisdom goes by majorities.

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• In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

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• Kissing don't last: cookery do!

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• Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

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• None of your dam punctilio.

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• On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

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• She was a lady of incisive features bound in stale parchment.

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• She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

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• Speech is the small change of silence.

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• The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

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• The lark ascending.

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• The sun is coming down to earth, and walks the fields and the waters. The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.

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• There is no freedom for the weak.

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• There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

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• Thoughts of heroes were as good as warming-pans.

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• Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

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