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Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. - Ge

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. – George Eliot

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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot

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A great many mens gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. – Denis Diderot

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