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George Eliot

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."

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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."

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"Be different to make a difference."

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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

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"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."

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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

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"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."

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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."

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"It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."

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"I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in."

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