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Breed is stronger than pasture. - George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths? – George Eliot

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Insects
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George Eliot
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? – George Eliot

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Fight, Fighting
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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons cant sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. – James Russell Lowell

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

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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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