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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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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot

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