Life is too precious
Title
Life is too precious
Quotation
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly on under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter writing.
Text
George Eliot to Clementia Doughty Taylor
Source
8 June 1856
Subject
Letters
Publisher
Published by the George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, 2025. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org
Rights
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Postcard Creator
Shade, Cara
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