WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:29:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg agreeability – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Eliot, George -- “Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story,” ch. 7, Scenes of Clerical Life (1857) https://wist.info/eliot-george/39359/ https://wist.info/eliot-george/39359/#respond Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:47:09 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=39359 Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.


George Eliot (1819-1880) English novelist [pseud. of Mary Ann Evans]
“Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story,” ch. 7, Scenes of Clerical Life (1857)
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Jane Austen (1775-1817) English author
Letter (1798-12-24) to Cassandra Austen
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