The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Quote by George Eliot

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How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

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

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

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to...

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern...

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business...

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business...

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.

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

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

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

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...

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we...

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we...

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the...

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the...

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.

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

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

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of...

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of...

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...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one...