The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISImagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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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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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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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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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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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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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
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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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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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