I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the … - George Eliot

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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

George Eliot

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

Beg, Pardon, Poet, Strongest, Write, Writing

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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.

Close, Know, Objectivity, Self, Vision, World

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

Behalf, Bravery, Might, People

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

Change, Influence, Life, Measured, Modify

All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

Becomes, Outlet, Outlets, Passion, Strength

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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

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Your son went into your kitchen and took a kitchen knife.

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I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.

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