It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISBooks are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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