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George Eliot

"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe."

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"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe."

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"Happy people is a great hope to all the unhappy people because a path of success can always be used by the people who couldn't find such a path yet!"

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"You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything!"

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"You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character."

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"The immense success of our life, is I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it."

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"It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression."

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"Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive."

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"Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand."
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