What SAT tutoring does is it invisibly alters the admissions pool so a school could try to be as egalitarian as they can, but if a student is SAT-tutored, and their score goes up 200 points in a year, and the college admissions committee has no idea that the student got tutored, all of a sudden it's shifting the pool back toward old money.


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GEORGE ELIOT
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
GEORGE ELIOT
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own dep...
GEORGE ELIOT
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human ...
GEORGE ELIOT
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
GEORGE ELIOT
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
GEORGE ELIOT
His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard ev...
GEORGE ELIOT
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear ...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere ...
GEORGE ELIOT
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins w...
GEORGE ELIOT
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
GEORGE ELIOT
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
GEORGE ELIOT
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-disconte...
GEORGE ELIOT
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
GEORGE ELIOT
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation a...
GEORGE ELIOT
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
GEORGE ELIOT
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights fo...
GEORGE ELIOT
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fol...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred ...
GEORGE ELIOT
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoi...
GEORGE ELIOT
The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
GEORGE ELIOT
Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
GEORGE ELIOT
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, wh...
GEORGE ELIOT
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while w...
GEORGE ELIOT
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities --a wil...
GEORGE ELIOT
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and cli...
GEORGE ELIOT
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so i...
GEORGE ELIOT
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
GEORGE ELIOT
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not...
GEORGE ELIOT
The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a re...
GEORGE ELIOT
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue...
GEORGE ELIOT
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
GEORGE ELIOT
Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
GEORGE ELIOT
We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, a...
EDEN ELIOT
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruit...
GEORGE ELIOT
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and ma...
GEORGE ELIOT
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is bette...
GEORGE ELIOT
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
GEORGE ELIOT
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the go...
GEORGE ELIOT
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any...
GEORGE ELIOT
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
GEORGE ELIOT
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were...
GEORGE ELIOT
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
GEORGE ELIOT
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a hi...
GEORGE ELIOT