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Breed is stronger than pasture. - George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture. – George Eliot

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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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Jealousy
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George Eliot
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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Tragedy
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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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Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished? – Hitopadesa

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Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants. – Danish proverb

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Ancestry, Ancestors

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married. – Edward W. Howe

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Ancestry, Ancestors

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. – Joyce Carol Oates

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