weaving quotes

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter- writing.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Letter to Mrs Peter Taylor, 8  Jun. Collected in G S Haight (ed)  The George Eliot Letters (1954), vol.2.