Quote by George Eliot
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early o

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot

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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

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Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay, – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Frank and explicit — that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. – Benjamin Disraeli

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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. – William Congreve

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