Quote by George Eliot
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of la

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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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths? – George Eliot

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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. – George Eliot

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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? – William Cowper

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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. – Anwar El-Sadat

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Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. – Maria Weston Chapman

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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. – Edmund Burke

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