There are answers which in turning away wrath only send it to the other end of the room and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.
George Eliot
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive if a man can only get up though it be but to whistle or to smoke he has a present which offers some resistance to the pastsensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Fate has carried me
Mid the thick arrows I will keep my stand
Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast
To pierce another.
- George Eliot