| Quotes |
Topic |
| Affection | A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections. |
| Age | Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. |
| Agreement | Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. |
| Anger | Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. |
| Applause | In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. |
| Arrogance | He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. |
| Change | It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot. |
| Charity | One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. |
| Choices | The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. |
| Comfort | I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. |
| Conceit | I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. |
| Criticism | Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. |
| Cruelty | Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. |
| Despair | But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. |
| Despair | There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. |
| Despair | What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. |
| Disasters | What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? |
| Distrust | What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? |
| Education | Those who trust us educate us. |
| Embarrassments | But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. |
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