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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ↗

— George Eliot

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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ↗

— George Eliot

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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. ↗

— George Eliot

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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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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. ↗

— George Eliot

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Excessive literary production is a social offense. ↗

— George Eliot

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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. ↗

— George Eliot

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. ↗

— George Eliot

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. ↗

— George Eliot

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