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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
"But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it."
"Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself."
"There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure."
"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."
Explore more quotes by George Eliot
"He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man."
"Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear."
"In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception."
"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."
"Wishes are held to be ominous; according to which belief the order of the world is so arranged that if you have an impious objection to a squint, your offspring is more likely to be born with one; also, that if you happen to desire a squint, you would not get it. This desponding view of probability the hopeful entirely reject, taking their wishes as good and sufficient security for all kinds of fulfilment."
"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."
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