Quote: Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person....

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Saqib Ali - 28 Jan 2009 04:16 GMT

So who is author of this quote?

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a
person, having neither to weigh thought no 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 with a breadth of kindness, blow the rest away"

So far, google search results attribute this quote to three different
people:

1) George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/oh-the_comfort-the_inexpressible_comfort_of/1708
45.html
;
2) Dinah Maria Mulock Craik http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik
; and
3) Anonymous - Shoshone (Native American Tribe) http://www.thegoldweb.com/voices/wisdom.htm

Any thoughts?

saqib
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Alohacyberian - 28 Jan 2009 07:22 GMT

> So who is author of this quote?
> ;
> 2) Dinah Maria Mulock Craik http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik
> ; and
>
> saqib

The amount of misinformation in Wikipedia is legion. If you're looking for
data you're prefer to be inaccurate or information that you know is wrong,
but, supports your point-of-view, Wikipedia is an excellent source. KM
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"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name
for ignorance."
~ G.K. Chesterton, quoted at
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