Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
From George Eliot
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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