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• To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. -- George MacDonald
• To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
• It is a maxim founded on the universal experiences of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interests.
  -- George Washington (1732-1799) Letter to Henry Laurens (1778)...
• Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
  -- George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Tale xiv, The Struggles of Conscience...
• What is greater than god.....
• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined.
  .. to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories....
• There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
• You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.
  -- George Macdonald (1824-1905)...