People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
George EliotOf new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
George EliotWhen we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot