What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.George Eliot
There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our hurts will be made much of--to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.
George Eliot
It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
George Eliot
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot
Character is not cut in marble it is not something solid And unalterable. It is something living and changing...
George Eliot
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot
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