George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its read more

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.rn

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.rn

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.