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Quote by George Eliot
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. – George Eliot

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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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Letters (writing)
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George Eliot
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot

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

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Nature
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George Eliot
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But marriage goes in waves. Youve got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just dont put the work and the effort into it. Youve got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall. – Anna Benson

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Marriage

I dont think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance. – Frank Carson

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Marriage

In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you. – David Boreanaz

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Marriage

I know Im guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you dont really prepare for how much work marriage really is. – John Krasinski

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Marriage

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Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had my kids really young. I had Danny when I was 18 or 19 and then Liam when I was 23 and Molly, I had when I was a little older. – Monica Potter

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Theres nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. Its a total turn-off. – Doug Coupland

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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians. – Alexander The Great

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