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“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”

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George Meredith livre Diana of the Crossways

Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=pDlxjZ-z-woC&q=%22A+witty+woman+is+a+treasure+a+witty+beauty+is+a+power%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage.
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885)

“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”

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George Meredith livre The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 1.

“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.”

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Prelude.
The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879)

“God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!”

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Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 33.

“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”

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Source: The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879), Ch. 7.

“In…the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.”

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Source: The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879), Ch. 14.

“Kissing don't last; cookery do!”

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Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 28.

“Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.”

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Ch. 12 http://books.google.com/books?id=n2g-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Who+rises+from+prayer+a+better+man+his+prayer+is+answered%22&pg=PA75#v=onepage.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859)

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

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St. 43.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)

“Cannon his name,
Cannon his voice, he came.”

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Napoléon, I (1898).

“Speech is the small change of Silence.”

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Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 34.

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

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St. 12.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)

“See ye not, Courtesy
Is the true Alchemy,
Turning to gold all it touches and tries?”

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The Song of Courtesy https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1381/1381-h/1381-h.htm#page129, IV (1859).

“Enter these enchanted woods,
You who dare.
Nothing harms beneath the leaves
More than waves a swimmer cleaves.
Toss your heart up with the lark,
Foot at peace with mouse and worm,
Fair you fare.
Only at a dread of dark
Quaver, and they quit their form:
Thousand eyeballs under hoods
Have you by the hair.
Enter these enchanted woods,
You who dare.”

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The Woods of Westermain http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-woods-of-westermain/, st. 1 (1883).

“The actors are, it seems, the usual three:
Husband and wife and lover.”

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St. 25.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)

“With patient inattention hear him prate.”

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Bellerophon, st. 4 (1887).

“But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes
That look on it! the diverse things they see!”

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A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-ballad-of-fair-ladies-in-revolt/ st. 16 (1883).

“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.”

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Love in the Valley, st. 5.

“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!”

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St. 50.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)

“"How divine is utterance!" she said. "As we to the brutes, poets are to us."”

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Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 16.

“All wisdom's armoury this man could wield”

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The Sage Enamoured (1892).

“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.”

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Juggling Jerry http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6583&poem=26458, st. 7 (1859).

“What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.”

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Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 1.

“On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose.
Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.”

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Lucifer in Starlight http://www.george-macdonald.com/meredith/lucifer.htm, l. 1-2 (1883).

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

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Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 19.

“Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.”

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Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 2.

“Full lasting is the song, though he,
The singer, passes”

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The Thrush in February, st. 17 (1888).

“The song seraphically free
Of taint of personality,
So pure that it salutes the suns
The voice of one for millions,
In whom the millions rejoice
For giving their one spirit voice.”

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The Lark Ascending, l. 95-100.

“How many a thing which we cast to the ground,
When others pick it up, becomes a gem!”

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St. 41.
Compare: "Once in a golden hour / I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed", Alfred Tennyson, The Flower.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)