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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.

George William Curtis

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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 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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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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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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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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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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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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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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