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Quote by George Eliot
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of

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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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot

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