Best Quotes by George Meredith (Top 10)
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A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
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There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.
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Caricature is rough truth.
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Kissing don't last: cookery do!
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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
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Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
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We are betrayed by what is false within
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
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Speech is the small change of silence.
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More George Meredith Quotes
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
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Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.
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It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
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The well of true wit is truth itself.
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Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
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A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
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