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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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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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