Happiness is speechless.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISImagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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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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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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Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper.
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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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 Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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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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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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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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