"How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive."

-- George Eliot

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“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
“I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.”

Source : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.92
“Don't be too busy for each other because that is something today that I find to be incredibly unfortunate.”
“I had no blood relatives till I made some.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.”
“The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.”
“That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or having succeeded, does not come with thanksgiving to God for its success.”
“Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.”

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