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Quote by George Eliot
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. – George Eliot

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But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. – George Eliot

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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