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George Meredith Quote: “I’ve studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.”

51. “I’ve studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.”

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George Meredith Quote: “George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.”

52. “George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality.”

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George Meredith Quote: “It is the devil’s masterstroke to get us to accuse him.”

53. “It is the devil’s masterstroke to get us to accuse him.”

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George Meredith Quote: “Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”

54. “Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”

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George Meredith Quote: “We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.”

55. “We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.”

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George Meredith Quote: “The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.”

56. “The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay.”

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George Meredith Quote: “The well of true wit is truth itself.”

57. “The well of true wit is truth itself.”

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George Meredith Quote: “How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!”

58. “How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!”

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George Meredith Quote: “Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment.”

59. “Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment.”

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George Meredith Quote: “It’s past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor! – don’t they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men’s fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!”

60. “It’s past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor! – don’t they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men’s fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!”

— George Meredith

George Meredith Quote: “O have a care of natures that are mute!”

61. “O have a care of natures that are mute!”

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George Meredith Quote: “Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.”

62. “Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.”

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George Meredith Quote: “The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.”

63. “The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.”

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George Meredith Quote: “The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.”

64. “The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.”

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George Meredith Quote: “As we to the brutes, poets are to us.”

65. “As we to the brutes, poets are to us.”

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George Meredith Quote: “Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.”

66. “Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.”

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George Meredith Quote: “Woman’s reason is in the milk of her breasts.”

67. “Woman’s reason is in the milk of her breasts.”

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George Meredith Quote: “Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.”

68. “Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.”

— George Meredith

George Meredith Quote: “Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: “an unusual combination,” in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.”

69. “Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: “an unusual combination,” in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.”

— George Meredith

George Meredith Quote: “Published memoirs indicate the end of a man’s activity, and that he acknowledges the end.”

70. “Published memoirs indicate the end of a man’s activity, and that he acknowledges the end.”

— George Meredith

George Meredith Quote: “She poured a little social sewage into his ears.”

71. “She poured a little social sewage into his ears.”

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George Meredith Quote: “Why mayn’t they do what men do?′ the Hero cried impetuously. ‘I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It’s that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn’t they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.”

72. “Why mayn’t they do what men do?′ the Hero cried impetuously. ‘I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It’s that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn’t they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.”

— George Meredith

George Meredith Quote: “Heiresses are never jilted.”

73. “Heiresses are never jilted.”

— George Meredith

George Meredith Quote: “Chance works for us when we are good captains.”

74. “Chance works for us when we are good captains.”

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