The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISHeroes 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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A 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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While we read history we make history.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Happiness is speechless.
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