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Quote by George Eliot
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of

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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Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. – George Eliot

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Vanity
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. – George Eliot

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Diplomacy
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Death is the king of this world: Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. – George Eliot

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Death
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Other Quotes from
Letters (writing)
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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)

A womans best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. – Lawrence Durrell

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Letters (writing)

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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Letters (writing)

Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. – Horace Walpole

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Letters (writing)

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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. – James Thurber

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Psychology

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult. – Anthony Daniels

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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword – Im loyal to one particular paper, the Guardian – and thats my idea of a perfect morning. – Laura Marling

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