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Breed is stronger than pasture.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings it will have the soul all to itself.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
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Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
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Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
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Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
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Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
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