Eliot

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    There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    For character too is a process and an unfolding ... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    ... despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)