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" The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. "
George Eliot
New
New Life
Beginning
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" The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. "
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" We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. "
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" The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. "
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" Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. "
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