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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

Other quotes by George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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Death
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George Eliot
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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. – George Eliot

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Slavery
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George Eliot
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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Nature

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities. – Lauryn Hill

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Nature

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. – Mason Cooley

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Nature

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Nature

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Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press. – Thomas Griffith

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