It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. (George Eliot)

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

George Eliot

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