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Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
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To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
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It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
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What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
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O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
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The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
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When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
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Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
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