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Quote by George Eliot
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subs

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – 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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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot

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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. – George Eliot

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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. – Antonin Artaud

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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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