Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Quote by George Eliot

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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

Hear Everything and judge for yourself

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk...

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end...

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect...

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect...

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the...

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the...

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Consequences are unpitying.

Consequences are unpitying.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which...

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.