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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Ive never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. – George Eliot

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