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Quote by George Eliot
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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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? – George Eliot

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Fight, Fighting
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George Eliot
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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot

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Vanity
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Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clans bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. – Camille Paglia

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Value people on their potential, not on their history. – Bo Bennett

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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History is a vision of Gods creation on the move. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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