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Quote by George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, b

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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