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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 we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. – George Eliot

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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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Fathers in todays modern families can be so many things. – Oliver Hudson

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My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability. – Thomas Jane

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I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish. – Shay Mitchell

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And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if Id quit school hed pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school. – Sarah Silverman

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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. – Confucius

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