Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Quote by George Eliot

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I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

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.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect...

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect...

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems...

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.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to...

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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...

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

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

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

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage...

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage...

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands...

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

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

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we...

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.