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Quotes from Thiis was published without credit in The Best Loved Poems of the American People — George Eliot

1819–1880 England

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Oh, the comfort —
the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person —
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but pouring them all right out,
just as they are,
chaff and grain together;
certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping,
and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Misattributed Thiis was published without credit in The Best Loved Poems of the American People (1936)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Eliot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.