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

Breed is stronger than pasture. – George Eliot

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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

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Obscurity
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George Eliot
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Tis God gives skill, but not without mens hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivariuss violins without Antonio. – George Eliot

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Violins
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George Eliot
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Ancestry, Ancestors
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Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ancestry, Ancestors

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. – Junius

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Ancestry, Ancestors

Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Ancestry, Ancestors

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

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Ancestry, Ancestors

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