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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double,

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. – George Eliot

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The best augury of a mans success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. – George Eliot

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