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Quote by George Eliot
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petr

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot

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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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George Eliot
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin

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Im afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. – Jim Garrison

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The only source of knowledge is experience. – Albert Einstein

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. – Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

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As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. – Anna Brownell Jameson

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