George Meredith
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"George Meredith", Order of Merit/OM was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era/Victorian era.

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Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

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.

Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment.

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

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

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