A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot
Im not denyin the women are foolish. God Almighty made em to match the men. – George Eliot

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot
Im not denyin the women are foolish. God Almighty made em to match the men. – George Eliot
We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. – George Eliot
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge. – George Eliot