Quote by George Eliot
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is har

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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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. – George Eliot

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A womans heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. – 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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Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred. – Arthur Golden

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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. – Washington Irving

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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. – Fulton J. Sheen

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