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

Breed is stronger than pasture. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot

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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield

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

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

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