Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

—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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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

—George Eliot

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

—George Eliot

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

—George Eliot

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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More quotations tagged with “pets”

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

—Frances Wright

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

—Fran Lebowitz

Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it’s easy to forget they’re not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don’t say anything back.

—Stephenie Geist

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11 Jul 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.