People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
George Eliot
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The select natures who pant after the ideal and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
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It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in mens dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.
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