Thursday, February 4, 2016

Quote of the Day (George Eliot, on Disappointment)


"We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, ’Oh, nothing!’ Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others." — George Eliot, Middlemarch (1874)

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