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We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.
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The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.
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