"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-George Eliot
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.“
-George Eliot
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"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
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