George Meredith, OM was an English novelist and poet.
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“Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.”
George Meredith
“Kissing don't last: cookery do!”
“A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.”
“That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!”
“The well of true wit is truth itself”
“On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. / Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.”
“Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.”
“It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him”
“Don't just count your years, make your years count.”
“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.”