 | 1888 - 722 pages
...can all of us go forward and do our duty. — Wellington. Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it : it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. — George Eliot. * Thirteen selected from Irish author by Mr. Francis Nugent. The desire to conquer... | |
 | 1875 - 444 pages
...sunrise.—Murray. "Gossip," says George Eliot, "is a kind of smoke that comes from the duty tobacco pipe of those who diffuse it, it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker." Nothing is more easy than to grow rich. It is only to trust nobody—to befriend none—to get everything,... | |
 | 1876 - 732 pages
...people promise according to their hopes, and perform according to their fears.— Rochefoucauld. 5. Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty...it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. — Mrs. Lewes. 6. Not even the nun's care, no matter how real in self-sacrifice and devotedness, can... | |
 | 1876 - 740 pages
...people promise according to their hopes, and perform according to their fears.— Rochefoucauld. 5. Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty...it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. — Mrs. Lewes. 6. Not even the nun's care, no matter how real in self-sacrifice and devotedness, can... | |
 | George Eliot - 1876 - 424 pages
...was disposed to think the bpst^J Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the^dirtjMxv fbacco-pipes of those who diffuse it : it proves nothing but the \ bad taste of the smoker. But if Grandcourt had really made any deeper or more unfortunate experiments in folly than were common... | |
 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1880 - 318 pages
...before the world without suffering from the circulation of gossip, which George Eliot describes as ' a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it, and that proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.' Most men of unusual power have peculiarities... | |
 | 1881 - 410 pages
...immortal dead who live again in lives made belter by their presence — so to live is heaven.11 49. " Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty...it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker." — Daniel Deronda. 40. " Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest." — Romola.... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. «. TENNXSON — Lady Clara Vere De \~ere. St. 7. GOSSIP. aries are as the shrine where all the relics of the...ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without de bat the bad taste of the smoker. /. GEOBOE ELIOT — Daniel Deronda. Bk. II. Ch. XIII. He's gone, and... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...away.—ffamlit. What the great man seeks la in himself ; what the small man seeks is in others.—COMFUCICB. Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty...diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.—GEORGB KLIOT. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...away.—//rtm/e/. What the great man seeks IB la himself ; what the small man seeks is in others.—CONFUCIUS. Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffiue it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.—(rKORris KLIOT. The sublime and the... | |
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it : it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. 
