Quote by George Eliot
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. – George Eliot

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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – Blaise Pascal

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The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence. – Rabindranath Tagore

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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life – that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment – that would be the perfect state. – Cate Blanchett

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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. – Phillips Brooks

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Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life – on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state – must be cast in the language of human rights. – Jonathan Sacks

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