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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.

George William Curtis

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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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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