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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ↗

— George Eliot

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Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. ↗

— George Eliot

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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. ↗

— George Eliot

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The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. ↗

— George Eliot

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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. ↗

— Boethius

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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. ↗

— George Eliot

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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Louise Bogan

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I love to play music. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

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It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

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So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

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