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

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot

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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. – Ambrose Bierce

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

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Balance is the enemy of art. – Richard Eyre

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