Good taste consists first upon fitness.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
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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.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis 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.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis While we read history we make history.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis 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.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis 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.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis 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.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
George William CurtisGeorge William Curtis It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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