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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

George William Curtis

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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Hands Right Strategy
Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Condition National Patriot
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Happiness Health One Liner
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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Better Doubt Reward Serve Virtue
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Family History Observation Time
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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Journey Maturity Season Summer
While we read history we make history.
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History One Liner Reading
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Anand Thakur
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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Echo Journal
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Conquer Greatness Intelligence People World
Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
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Beginning Intelligence Majority Minority Progress
Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
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Conquer Death Greatness History Human
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Beginning Promise Storm Vow White
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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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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Fame Intelligence Kind Man Reputation
Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.
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Hero History Ourselves Poet Truth