Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISImagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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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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While we read history we make history.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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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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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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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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