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Sue Pit

http://pitneypost.blogspot.com

https://www.goodreads.com/cybee

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“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: truth

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“It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: temptation

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“Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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