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George Eliot Quotes: Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
         

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.


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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.



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Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.



What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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