To get an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries we have only to look at their pleasures.

—George Eliot

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About George Eliot

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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the...

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Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.

—George Eliot

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

—George Eliot

It's never too late to be who you might have been.

—George Eliot

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

—George Eliot

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

—George Eliot

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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

—Russell Baker

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The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it's a formula for misery.

—Suzanne Selfors in Mad Love

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

—Theodore Dreiser

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You're immature. You've been unable to adjust to the idea of war."
"Yes, sir."
"You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second."
"I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed."
"… Misery depresses you. Ignorance depresses you. Persecution depresses you. Violence depresses you.… You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic depressive!

—Joseph Heller

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