College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em. - George Eliot - Quotesmemo.com

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I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

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George Eliot

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

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All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

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