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She says, he is a great soul.—A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in! said Mrs. Cadwallader.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book.

Still, I repeat, there was a general impression that Lydgate was something rather more uncommon than any general practitioner in Middlemarch. And

The blessed work of helping the world forward happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Let us bind love with duty; for duty is the love of law; and law is the nature of the Eternal.' So we bound ourselves.

Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable. —Justice Shallow.

A pair of church pigeons for a couple of wicked Spanish fowls that eat their own eggs!

A man's mind–what there is of it–has always the advantage of being masculine,–as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,–and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.

People can easily take the sacred word duty as a name for what they desire any one else to do.

I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises," said Mr Casaubon.

For the egoism which enter into our theories does not effect their sincerity, rather the more our egoism is satisfied the more robust is our belief

Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge; it requires no accountability, no understanding.

if it were possible for a healthy female mind even to simulate

if it were possible for a healthy female mind even to simulate respect for a husband's hobby.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives,' he interposed, in his measured way. 'Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.

Love is that liquor sweet and most divine, Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.

Love is swift of foot;/Love's a man of war.

In a system where authority is of the utmost importance, the debt-payment principle is given much heavier weight than the positive-action principle.

This is not just about same-sex couples. It is about which values will dominate in our society.

One of the great discoveries of neuroscience is the mirror neuron system.

From the point of view of a cognitive scientist, who looks at modes of thought, there are six basic types of progressives, each with a distinct mode of thought.

Conservative language activates circuitry for the conservative worldview; progressive language activates circuitry for the progressive worldview.

What we have here is an image-mapping based on structure—in this case, struc- ture that is in part metaphorically imposed. When such a mapping exists between the structure of a sentence and the structure of the meaning or the image that the sentence conveys, the mapping is called "iconic.

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.