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Vicki’s Quotes

“there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship, which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: engagement

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“There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress. ”
― John Stuart Mill

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“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. ”
― Voltaire

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“There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all....”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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