Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISPatriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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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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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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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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True invective requires great imagination.
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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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Happiness is speechless.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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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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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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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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