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You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.
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Old men's eyes are like old men's memories they are strongest for things a long way off.
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