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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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Death
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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. – George Eliot

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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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

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

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

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Neutrality

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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. – Imran Khan

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