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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

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Im proof against that word failure. Ive seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. – George Eliot

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best
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George Eliot
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – George Eliot

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Portraits
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. – Henry David Thoreau

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Animals

Eagles do not beget Doves. – Anon.

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[Man] asks from prose, only under a more obscure and indefinite form, what he expects from poetry; and indeed, where is the actual boundary between poetry and prose? and how can one help owning that prose is but poetry gradually but never entirely extinguished or calmed down? – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. – Paul Wellstone

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