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“I call it improper pride to let fool's notions hinder you from doing a good action. There's no sort of work," said Caleb, with fervor, putting out his hand and moving it up and down to mark his emphasis, "that could ever be done well, if you minded what fools say. You must have it inside you that your plan is right, and that plan you must follow.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.'

'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.”
― Charles Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin: Interviews