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George Eliot
“Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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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

Octave Mirbeau
“‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.”
Octave Mirbeau

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
“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

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