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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. – George Eliot

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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

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Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. – George Bernard Shaw

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Jealousy is the grave of affection. – Mary Baker Eddy

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