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Quote by George Eliot
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. – George Eliot

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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. – George Eliot

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Hurt, Injury
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George Eliot
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot

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great
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George Eliot
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace. – Elbert Hubbard

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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. – John Ruskin

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great

Ive got a great cigar collection – its actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasnt going to smoke every last one of em. – Ron White

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