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Quote by George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tender

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

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