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

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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. – George Eliot

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Jealousy
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Other Quotes from
Letters (writing)
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A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend? – Emily Dickinson

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Letters (writing)

Or dont you like to write letters. I do because its such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel youve done something. – Ernest Hemingway

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Letters (writing)

SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak. – John Donne

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Letters (writing)

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal

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Letters (writing)

Random Quotes

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, thats all I did, and it is so invigorating now that Im supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up. – Ellen Page

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Ephesians 6:10 – Bible

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The thing about death is that its honest. – Laura Linney

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Death

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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Conformity