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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. ↗

— George Eliot

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Excessive literary production is a social offense. ↗

— George Eliot

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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ↗

— George Eliot

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Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ↗

— 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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so. ↗

— Boethius

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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. ↗

— Louise Bogan

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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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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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