Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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While we read history we make history.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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