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Quote by George Eliot
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason

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

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. – George Eliot

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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. – Vladimir Nabokov

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