But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Quote by George Eliot

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Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is...

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen...

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen...

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of...

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not...

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing....

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing....

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true...

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true...

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such...

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it...

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake...

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less...

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less...

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as...

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as...

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.