For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISEvery 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.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: “Dreamer, dream no more!”
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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