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Quote by George Eliot
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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The best augury of a mans success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. – George Eliot

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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – George Eliot

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