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Begin Quotes by George MacDonald
- But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.
- Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out…
- The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to…
- Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.
- We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think…
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