That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
George Eliotthe Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
George Eliottrouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.
George Eliot