George Eliot :
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Letters
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Writers and Writing
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Life and Living
Gift it Richelieu_64x64.png "Quotations by Cardinal (born Armand Jean du Plessis) Richelieu")
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