Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISFor nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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