Eliot

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    Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    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 [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure o’ one fool as ‘ull tell him he’s wise.
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)