Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. – 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

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. – 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
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot