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Breed is stronger than pasture. - George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture. – George Eliot

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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – George Eliot

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Portraits
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George Eliot
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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History
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Ancestry, Ancestors
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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

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Ancestry, Ancestors

I dont know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. – Abraham Lincoln

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Ancestry, Ancestors

The precise form of an individuals activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity. – Henry Louis

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Ancestry, Ancestors

Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. – Proverb

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Ancestry, Ancestors

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I dont read music. I dont write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. – James Taylor

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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. – Raymond Chandler

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power

…those dulcet sounds at break of day… – George Granville, 1701, via Shakespeare

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If God is just, I tremble for my country. – Thomas Jefferson

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God