An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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• George Eliot:

  Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

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  The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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  Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

• George Eliot:

  Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

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  The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

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  Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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  Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

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  Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

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  Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

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  Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be cal