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“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Happiness takes effort. You have to make yourself available to happiness. That is probably the best definition of faith that I can come up with.”
― Everett Peacock, The Parrot Talks In Chocolate