Quote by George Eliot
Breed is stronger than pasture. - George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. – George Eliot

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. – W. S. Gilbert

Heredity is nothing, but stored environment. – Luther Burbank

The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground. – Sir Thomas Overbore

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