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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemi

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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Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. – 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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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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The Communist regime didnt consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. – Kathryn Bigelow

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The obscurest epoch is today. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains

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World history is a court of judgment. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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