True invective requires great imagination.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISRomance 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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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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
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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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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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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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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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