One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
George EliotI am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
George EliotThere is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.
George Eliot