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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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. – Henry Miller

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

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

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

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