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A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
(George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Daniel Deronda, bk. 2, ch. 15 (1874-1876).)
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... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.
(George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 24, 1871-1872.)
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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 [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. Middlemarch, bk. 3, ch. 27 (1871).
Of Rosamund and Lydgate.)
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... blameless people are always the most exasperating!
(George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 12 (1871-1872).
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
(George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. Daniel Deronda, bk. 1, ch. 10 (1876).)
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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 [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. Daniel Deronda, bk. 8, ch. 69 (1876).)
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... people are almost always better than their neighbours think they are.
(George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Middlemarch, ch. 72 (1871-1872).)
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