All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Quote by George Eliot

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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest...

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort...

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are...

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am...

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am...

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are...

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely...

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely...