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Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!
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There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
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