Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot
All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot