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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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 world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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While we read history we make history.
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Happiness is speechless.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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