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Quote by George Eliot
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. -

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

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Science
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George Eliot
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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Letters (writing)
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George Eliot
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Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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History

You cant set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. – George M. Humphrey

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History

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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History

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I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. – Brigid Brophy

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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice. – Nancy Pelosi

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A father and two sons run Adelphia. Its a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people – three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? Lets send the monkey to Mars, Dad! – Lewis Black

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Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. – Lord Thomas Dewar

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