"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-George Eliot
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.“
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"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
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"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."
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"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
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"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
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