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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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Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
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But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
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The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.
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Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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.
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Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
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It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
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Brothers are so unpleasant.
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A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.
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