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Quote by George Eliot
All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end an

All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Death
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George Eliot
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You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. – George Eliot

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best
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I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if were completely living in it. – Tom Hooper

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My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. – Broderick Crawford

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When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasnt focused on school – I was into the music and trying to please my dad. – Fantasia Barrino

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Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me. – Tatum ONeal

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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? – Chuck Palahniuk

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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar. – Bill Nighy

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Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair. – Yogi Berra

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