That reminds me of a few quotes I've gathered over the years (winners of the Baffle Em With BS Cup [if I opened the competition up to Proust btw it would shut down the server]):
...his handicraft made him a highly welcome settler to the richer housewives of the district, and even to the more provident cottagers, who had their little stock of yarn at the year's end. Their sense of his usefulness would have counteracted any repugnance or suspicion which was not confirmed by a deficiency in the quality or the tale of the cloth he wove for them.
--SILAS MARNER
George Eliot
The subtle and varied pains springing from the higher sensibility that accompanies higher culture, are perhaps less pitiable than that dreary absence of impersonal enjoyment and consolation which leaves ruder minds to the perpetual urgent companionship of their own griefs and discontent.
--SILAS MARNER
George Eliot
The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the condition as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.
--SILAS MARNER
George Eliot
There is a degree of familiarity which takes place between constant associates, that justifies the negligence of many rules of which, in an earlier period of their intercourse, politeness requires the exact observance.
--WIELAND
Charles Brockden Brown
God, I hated George Eliot!
(And I don't know what kind of dog it is). I also like the Elvis pic. He gurned a lot
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@ t boy; this is off topic from off topic, but are you familiar with the Tossers?
Many. But, I'm not sure if this is a specific group you're referring to?
Man, those George Eliot quotes are preposterous! She was a rocking lady, though, so I forgive her.