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" The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. "
George Eliot
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" But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. "
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" The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. "
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" People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. "
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" But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. "
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" When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. "
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" But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. "
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" Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. "
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" Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. "
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