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Quote by George Eliot
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. – George Eliot

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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. – Moliere

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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. – Benjamin Franklin

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