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The power to exterminate is too grave to be left in any hands but those of a thoroughly Communist government.
- George Bernard Shaw
The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers. [ Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming, The Westminster Review, 1885. ]
- George Eliot
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
- George Eliot
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
- George Eliot
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of divine power against evil- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle woth darkness narrower.
- George Eliot
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
- George Eliot
Gwendolen would not have liked to be an object of disgust to this husband whom she hated: she liked all disgust to be on her side.
- George Eliot
But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me...That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil--widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
- George Eliot
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of divine power against evil- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
- George Eliot
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil—widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
- George Eliot
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
- George Eliot
the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under
- George Eliot