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• Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

  George Meredith

  Perfect, Simplicity, Wit

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.383, Library of Alexandria

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• Chance works for us when we are good captains.

  George Meredith

  Captains, Chance

  George Meredith (1995). “The Egoist”, p.404, Wordsworth Editions

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• Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

  George Meredith

  Men, Literature, Ends

  George Meredith (1894). “Lord Ormont and His Aminta (Complete)”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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• Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.

  George Meredith

  Spring, Valleys, Forget

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8194, Library of Alexandria

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• Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

  George Meredith

  Heart, Mean, Two

  George Meredith (1897). “Diana of the Crossways: A Novel”, p.122, Wayne State University Press

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• Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

  George Meredith

  History, Biographies, Memoir

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• A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

  George Meredith

  Death, Prayer, Memorial

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

  George Meredith

  Country, Fighting, Men

  George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1912). “1844-1881”

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• It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him

  George Meredith

  Devil

  George Meredith (2008). “Diana of the Crossways: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.386, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

  George Meredith

  Knowledge, Blow, Men

  George Meredith, Maura C. Ives (1998). “George Meredith's Essay On Comedy and Other New Quarterly Magazine Publications: A Critical Edition”, p.120, Bucknell University Press

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• Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
  Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along,
  Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter
  Chill as a dull face frowning on a song.
  Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom
  Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend
  Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset
  Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.

  George Meredith

  Song, Laughter, Sunset

  George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan (1912). “The poetical works of George Meredith: with some notes”

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• The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.

  George Meredith

  Water, Golden, Fields

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 19

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• In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

  George Meredith

  Passion, Plot, Needs

  'Modern Love' (1862) st. 43

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• A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

  George Meredith

  Wine, Imagination, House

  George Meredith (1995). “The Egoist”, p.159, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life! - In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To throw that faint thin fine upon the shore!

  George Meredith

  Horse, Moving, Ocean

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.257, Library of Alexandria

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• See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?

  George Meredith

  Curiosity, Trying, Gold

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.7939, Library of Alexandria

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• She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

  George Meredith

  Gossip, Ears, Littles

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• Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.

  George Meredith

  Life, Ease, Command

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.568, Library of Alexandria

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

  George Meredith

  Laughter, People, Laughing

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• Heiresses are never jilted.

  George Meredith

  Marriage, Jilted, Heiress

  George Meredith (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Meredith (Illustrated)”, p.2006, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Book, Becoming, Diaries

  George Meredith (1897). “Diana of the Crossways: A Novel”, p.51, Wayne State University Press

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• The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

  George Meredith

  War, Ego, Patriotism

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.4025, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  George Meredith

  Men, Two, Topsy Turvy

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.160, Library of Alexandria

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• And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

  George Meredith

  Soul, Oblivion, Drink

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.227, Library of Alexandria

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

  George Meredith

  Horse, Heart, Long

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