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George Eliot Quotes: The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.
         

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.


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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.

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