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

Breed is stronger than pasture. – George Eliot

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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge. – 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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Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. – Ambrose Bierce

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. – Nicholas Boileau

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

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