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• What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!

  George Meredith

  Soul, Hot, Answers

  Modern Love st. 50 (1862)

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• She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

  George Meredith

  Sweet, Rawness, Comedy

  George Meredith (1956). “The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

  George Meredith

  Struggle, Men, Reflection

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.4327, Library of Alexandria

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• I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.

  George Meredith

  Valentine, Thorns, Paws

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8366, Library of Alexandria

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• Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

  George Meredith

  Pain, Order, May

  'Vittoria' (1866) ch. 42

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• Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

  George Meredith

  Army, Law, Track

  'Lucifer in Starlight'

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• The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

  George Meredith

  Men, Poetry, Gone

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• The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

  George Meredith

  Born, My Friends

  George Meredith (2015). “Beauchamp's Career”, p.82, George Meredith

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• Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.

  George Meredith

  Love, Law, Hard Life

  George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.550, Broadview Press

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