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.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISStratagem is the right hand of cunning.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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While we read history we make history.
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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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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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