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Childhood Quotes by George Eliot
- We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
- In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
- Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
- Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and…
- We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same…
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