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It's unfortunate when kids get hurt, but I wish parents would monitor what their kids are doing and watching. It's common sense, really. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ↗

— George Eliot

#had #hear #him #like #risen

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. ↗

— George Eliot

#ancestral #city #funeral #gathered #hemisphere

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. ↗

— Boethius

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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. ↗

— George Eliot

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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. ↗

— George Eliot

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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. ↗

— George Eliot

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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. ↗

— George Eliot

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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. ↗

— George Eliot

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