Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISThe Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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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 river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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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 lies, first of all, in health.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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