True invective requires great imagination.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISGood taste consists first upon fitness.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
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Happiness is speechless.
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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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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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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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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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Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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