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

Other quotes by George Eliot

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

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Obscurity
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. – George Eliot

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good
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Other Quotes from
Letters (writing)
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And none will hear the postmans knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten? – W. H. Auden

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. – Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend? – Emily Dickinson

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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. – Lillian Hellman

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Hope

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Intelligence

Intelligence is enormously sexy. – Frank Langella

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Intelligence

You know you live in Phoenix when the cold-water faucet is hotter than the hot-water faucet. – Local saying

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Arizona