Quote by George Eliot
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot

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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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Obscurity brings safety. – Aesop

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It is better to be looked over than overlooked. – Mae West

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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

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