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George Eliot
“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

George Eliot
“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

George Eliot
“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

Charlie Chaplin
“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

George Eliot
“Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

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