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— George Eliot"... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service."
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
— George Eliot
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According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.
— Francois Rabelais
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