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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. ↗

— George Eliot

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Justice is the sum of all moral duty. ↗

— William Godwin

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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ↗

— George Eliot

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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. ↗

— George Eliot

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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ↗

— George Eliot

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I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general. ↗

— Serena Williams

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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ↗

— George Eliot

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ↗

— George Eliot

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You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. ↗

— George Eliot

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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. ↗

— George Eliot

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