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A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Topic: Affection
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Topic: Age
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Topic: Agreement
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Topic: Anger
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Topic: Applause
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Topic: Arrogance
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It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.
Topic: Change
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Topic: Charity
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Topic: Choices
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
Topic: Comfort
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
Topic: Conceit
Source: None
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Topic: Criticism
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Topic: Cruelty
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Topic: Despair
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
Topic: Despair
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What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Topic: Despair
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
Topic: Disasters
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Topic: Distrust
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Those who trust us educate us.
Topic: Education
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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
Topic: Embarrassments`
Source: None
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To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
Topic: Feelings
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Topic: Fools
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
Topic: Friendship
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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.
Topic: Friendship
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
Topic: Hate
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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
Topic: Heartbreak
Source: None
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
Topic: Heartbreak
Source: None
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Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
Topic: Hell
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Topic: Humor
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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
Topic: Infatuation
Source: None
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There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.
Topic: Injury
Source: None
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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
Topic: Intimacy
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Topic: Jealousy
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A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Topic: Jokes
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What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
Topic: Kindness
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Topic: Language
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The law's made to take care o' raskills.
Topic: Law
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Topic: Lonliness
Source: None
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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
Topic: Love lost
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Topic: Luxury
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Topic: Melancholy
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It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
Topic: Misery
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Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
Topic: Motives
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
Topic: Music
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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
Topic: Needs
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Topic: Nothing
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Topic: Opposition
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But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
Topic: Opposition
Source: None
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