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" Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. "
George Eliot
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" All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. "
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" Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. "
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" But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. "
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" Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. "
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" Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. "
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" Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. "
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" Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. "
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" Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. "
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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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" The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. "
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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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" I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men. "
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Made
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" I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. "
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