Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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