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Quote by George Eliot
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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Illusion
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. – George Eliot

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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. – George Eliot

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Family
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Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. – Archibald Alexander

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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure dont need an enemy. – Kurt Vonnegut

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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. – Charles Baudelaire

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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. – Alan C. Kay

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