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George William Curtis

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A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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