For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISIn the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Happiness is speechless.
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While we read history we make history.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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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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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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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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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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