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Quote by George Eliot
Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carr

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

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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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