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To hope, and not be impatient, is really to believe . . .	George Meredith	The Adventures of Harry Richmond
He thanked me, observing that there were days when you lay on your back and the sky rained apples; while there were other days when you wore your fingers down to the first joint to catch a flea. Such was Fortune!	George Meredith	The Adventures of Harry Richmond
We are sons of yesterday, not of the morning. The past is our mortal mother, no dead thing. Our future constantly reflects her to the soul.	George Meredith	The Adventures of Harry Richmond
"Nations at war are wild beasts," she replied. "The passions of these hordes of men are not an example for a living soul. Our souls grow up to the light: we must keep eye on the light, and look no lower."	George Meredith	The Adventures of Harry Richmond
"Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them."	George Meredith	The Adventures of Harry Richmond
"Puns are the smallpox of the language."	George Meredith	The Adventures of Harry Richmond
. . . the well of true wit is truth itself, the gathering of the precious drops of right reason, wisdom's lightning; and no soul possessing and dispensing it can justly be a target for the world, however well armed the world confronting her.	George Meredith	Diana of the Crossways
"Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two."	George Meredith	Diana of the Crossways
. . . the world prefers decorum to honesty.	George Meredith	Diana of the Crossways
"The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay."	George Meredith	Diana of the Crossways

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