Quote by George Eliot
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which non

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot

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Funerals
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And when a womans will is as strong as the mans who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. – George Eliot

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strength
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That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. – George Eliot

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. – G. K. Chesterton

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Neutrality

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. – Arthur J. Goldberg

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Neutrality

Balance is the enemy of art. – Richard Eyre

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Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top – C-level jobs, board seats – tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. – Sheryl Sandberg

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