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" Breed is stronger than pasture. "
George Eliot
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" I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth. "
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" Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. "
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" Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. "
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" Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. "
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" And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. "
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" What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. "
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" Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult. "
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" Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. "
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" There are many victories worse than a defeat. "
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" Excessive literary production is a social offense. "
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" When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. "
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" A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. "
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Taste
" Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. "
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" The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. "
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" To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. "
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" The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. "
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" It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. "
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" A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. "
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" There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. "
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" There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. "
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