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Quote by George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions,

Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Death
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George Eliot
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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. – George Eliot

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Feelings
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George Eliot
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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Nature
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George Eliot
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Other Quotes from
Animals
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The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. – Hebrew Proverb

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Animals

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. – Colette

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Animals

There is a drop of blood in the snow before me…. The coyote… is in estrus…. spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring. – Craig Childs, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild

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Animals

Eagles do not beget Doves. – Anon.

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Animals

Random Quotes

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. – Havelock Ellis

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Age

Dont get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? Thats a story. Handled properly, its more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be. – Patrick Rothfuss

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cool

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. – Albert Einstein

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Knowledge

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. – James Smithson

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Happiness