Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPrussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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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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Happiness is speechless.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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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 test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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