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Quote by George Eliot
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – 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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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. – George Eliot

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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. – Louis Kronenberger

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. – Lord Chesterfield

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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

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