For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISA man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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